Sean Redmond speaks of Kate Winslet's _______ white body in his article.
What is unruly?
100
This is everything placed in front of the camera that is then captured on film and so constitutes the film image.
What is (the definition of) the profilmic.
100
These people are paid to tweet for celebrities.
Who are ghost-tweeters/ twitters?
100
While technique is essential to a career on stage, none of this thing is required to be a star.
What is previous training? (p. 40)
100
This clinical condition is characterized by an obsession with celebrity & celebrity culture.
What is celebrity worship syndrome?
200
Sean Redmond argues that this mythic trope connects star theory, stardom and whiteness.
What is the idea that star and whiteness are both ordinary and extraordinary?
200
With the emergence of the star system, this became a new site of knowledge and truth.
What is the private life of stars?
200
This term describes the process by which a part of a celebrity's life is brought to the public to create a sense of intimacy with their fans.
What is "public privacy"?
200
The star is, above all, an actress or actor who becomes the subject of this myth.
What is they myth of love?
200
This trend allowed athletes to gain more money for their sports clothing lines while making it popular for average people to wear sports clothing on a regular basis.
What is fitness chic? (Turner, Economy of the Stars 197).
300
Individual stars come to stand in for this.
What are the ideological tensions of the era? (page 263).
300
This Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.
What is (popularly known as) the Hays code.
300
This was the year that Twitter was launched.
What is 2006.
300
These people were the first to cross gender barriers when it came to clothes, annexing tweeds, socks, shorts and slacks.
Who are female stars? (p.39)
300
Milly Williamson uses this Britain slang term to refer to working-class people who are seen to possess little established ‘taste’ or culture.
What is a chav?
400
The success of the stars forges an explicit relationship with these two economic elements.
What are capitalist production and consumption. (page 264)
400
The public's desire to know the names of the film performers led to this.
What was (one major reason for) the emergence of the star system?
400
According to scholar Lionel Trilling, this is the display of the hidden inner life, complete with passions and anguish. It also helps fans to ensure that the person tweeting is sincerely who they claim to be.
What is authenticity? (p. 149)
400
The mythology of the Star System associates these two types of beauty.
What are moral beauty and physical beauty?
400
Graeme Turner uses this term to explain the way that celebrities are forms of “property” in the sense that they are a “financial asset to those who gain from their commercialization…”
What is celebrity-commodity?
500
Idealized white stars are made in and come from this place.
What is heaven? (page 265)
500
In the film industry, this emerged as a means of increasing the regularity and and regulation of the cinematic institution.
What is intertextuality?
500
For their fans, receiving a message from a highly followed celebrity on Twitter is often this.
What is a status symbol and/or a performance of public access? (150)
500
The medical process by which the star becomes more than an actress and the characters she plays more than characters.
What is infection? The characters of her film infect the star and the star herself infects the characters.
500
According to Adorno and Horkheimer, this is becoming indistinguishable from the movies.