Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity: Film, Fame, and Personal Worth by Mandy Merck

Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity: Film, Fame, and Personal Worth

Mandy Merck

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Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this con...

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