[Commlist] New Book Publication - The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale

Karen McNally is pleased to announce the publication of The Stardom 
Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale with Wallflower Press, an 
imprint of Columbia University Press.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-stardom-film/9780231184014


Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has 
mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first book to 
focus exclusively on these modern fairy tales, Karen McNally traces the 
history of this film and television genre from fictional narratives to 
biopics and from the silent to the contemporary era. Discovering less 
familiar films, revisiting classics like A Star is Born (1937 and 1954), 
and considering contemporary examples such as Judy (2019), the book 
reveals how the genre shapes Hollywood stardom as it takes a central 
place in the American imagination.

“The Stardom Film is a lively and insightful introductory account of 
this cycle from its early days to the present. In following that 
history, McNally offers original and well-researched readings of 
familiar and rarely studied works. Recommended reading for anyone 
interested in stardom and the many complex ways Hollywood has treated it 
on film.”—Steven Cohan, author of Hollywood by Hollywood

“The Stardom Film is an engaging, lucid, and comprehensive study of a 
narrative mode that continues to exert fascination. This book is a 
valuable resource for anyone interested in the tropes by which celebrity 
and stardom remain intertwined with our social and professional 
identities.”—Adrienne McLean, author of Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, 
Identity, and Hollywood Stardom


Dr Karen McNally is senior lecturer in film and television studies at 
London Metropolitan University. She is the author of When Frankie Went 
to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity (2008), editor of 
Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films (2011), and 
coeditor of The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality, and 
American Television (2019).

The Short Cuts series is a comprehensive list of introductory texts 
covering the full spectrum of film studies, specifically designed for 
building an individually styled library for all students and enthusiasts 
of cinema and popular culture.

978-0-231-18401-4 paper
978-0-23185114-5 e-book

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