Stars and Stardom on Stage and Screen

3 credits · Undergraduate

What makes a ‘star’ actor? How do stars’ gifts and idiosyncrasies interact with the possibilities of their media and with market forces to create celebrity? This course explores stage and screen stardom as historical, aesthetic, and economic phenomena that illuminate shifting constructions of beauty, class, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. CROSSLISTED: FILM 3915.03 EXCLUSIONS: THEA 2911.03; FILM 2911.03 FORMATS: Lab | Discussion