Star system, film industry, music industry, celebrity culture, consumerism, media influence, cultural economy, communication economy
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The emergence of the star system in the film and music industry, its characteristics, and its impact on other economic sectors and politics.
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[...] Works of Leo Lowenthal on The Importance of celebrities proto-influencers of the 1930s. Works of David Buxton on the limits of the star-system: a charisma that is not transferable to the political field in the case of rebellious stars. When stars become models in terms of lifestyle: hedonism, rebellion, self-destruction, evacuation of the political question FILMS: do the organizations justify their economic actions? - Among the different organizations or people who play an economic role in the staged history, which ones surprise you occasionally? [...]
[...] - Which different figures from the culture, media, and communication industries appear and how the film's director(s) stage them? (formally - for example with which shots - and in the background - which biases? - Which other economic sectors are mentioned or illustrated and how do the relationships between media/culture/communication, on the one hand, and these other economic sectors appear? - Finally, don't forget that the film you are watching results from both objective determinisms and the subjective choices of the director (and his many collaborators). Try to identify traces of these social arbitrations and conditionings. [...]
[...] Ddevelopment of musical press and youth press. There will be theeconomy of affectivity Two main factors : Increased competition : generating a stock of stars abs of salariat : star linked to the project "one shot" emergence of a new economic actor (the star) Some specifics of the star system - concentration of demand on a very limited number of stars - the star relies on an 'appearance of P'originality' and the star system relies on the commercialization of this pseudo originality. [...]
