This document lists notable actors and provides an overview of key points in developing star theory, including that stars add monetary value by attracting audiences, are involved in constructing their public image, often live outside societal norms, and signify cultural values. It discusses scholars Christine Gledhill and Richard Dyer and their work analyzing stars as capital, constructed personas, deviant figures, and carriers of social meaning.

1. Film studies
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2. ▪ Brad pit
▪ Morgan freeman
▪ Arnold (the big man)
▪ Jonny Depp
▪ Marilyn Monroe
▪ Denzil Washington
▪ Jackie Chan
▪ Micheal Kane
▪ John Travolta
▪ Eddie murphy
▪ Cameron Diaz
▪ Will smith
▪ Elizabeth Taylor
▪ Hugh Grant
▪ George Clooney
▪ John Wayne
▪ Russel crow
▪ Nicholas Kage
▪ Bruce Willis
▪ Leonardo DiCaprio
▪ Benerdict Cumberbatch
▪ Jona hill
▪ Chanum tatum
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actors as you
can

3. Fundamental in developing star theory
Four key points:
▪ Star as capital value
-They make money for the film
companies
-Films with stars will make more
money than films without stars
-How much are they worth?
-They add monetary value to the film
and reduce the risk of loss
▪ Stars as Construct
-They are very much involved in their
own mythification. How might they be
involved?
-Christie Gledhill wrote that stars
‘reach us through their bodies’
-We want to know the ‘real’ and
‘reel’. If we go to the film we will
learn who they really are: real person,
reel person, persona ie a combination
of both
-Average age for a man is 36; for
women 27.
Christine
Gledhill

4. ▪ Stars as Deviant
-They live their lives to excess,
outside the normal rules of
behaviour
-Hollywodd dtars breaking the
rules add to our interest
▪ Stars as cultural value
-‘Stars signify moral, social and
ideological values’
-They tell us what we think and
hoq to behave, what is right and
wrong, even how we should look
and what our culture should be
like

5. ▪ Stars as a social phenomenon
-How stars are understood as
fulfilling a social and cultural
function phenomenon
-consider how we idealise them
▪ Stars as image
-uses semiotics and cultural
studies to ask about the social
meanings and stardom in general
and specific stars in particular and
how these meaning are produces
or constructed
▪ Stars as signs
-is about the problems associated
with a star and a particular
representation of a character in a
film and how the two interact.
For example arnold in
kindergarten cops
Richard Dyer

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