Stars, the Film Reader (In Focus--Routledge Film Readers)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 26, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415278935
First sentence: The concept of shifting, fragmenting, and binding, which stems from Marx's theory of commodity fetishism and which has been used in cultural studies to describe various forms of institutional oppression, is particularly useful in understanding the ways that studios positioned actors as social subjects during Hollywood's Golden Era.