Title: Celebrity creatures: the ‘starification’ of the cinematic animal
Abstract: Star studies has made a significant theoretical contribution to film studies over the past thirty years, and has been important in offering a variety of methods for understanding what constitutes a star. Nonetheless, rarely, apart from critical reviews contemporaneous to the release of the films, has the animal been mentioned or awarded judicious attention in academic publications. Furthermore, invariably, the analysis of stardom in film is confined to the study of humans and, by extension, human performance. Using Uggie in <italic>The Artist</italic> (Hazanavicius 2011) as a case study, this chapter introduces the notion of animal as star, and analyses the ways in which media, publicity and film language promote the animal to what Emmanuel Gouabault, Annik Dubied and Claudine Burton-Jeangros (2011) term ‘superindividual’ status.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-05-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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