Overview
- Applies a de-westernizing approach to the study of Hollywood stardom
- Theory-led star study focused exclusively on Schwarzenegger
- Blends film philosophy, post- and decolonial and sound theory to advance debates in star studies
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyses the uses of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a foreign star in Hollywood through a film philosophical, de-westernizing and sonic critical framework. It offers very close readings of the film texts, of the roles Schwarzenegger performs, and the rhetorical strategies he adopts outside his film performances to show that in spite of attempts to occupy the position of an emblematic member of the U.S. national body Schwarzenegger remains irrevocably outside as an accented migrant body continuously accumulating markers of belonging that by their very necessity attest to their insufficiency. The book’s central project is to trace back, from the uses to which a migrant star such as Schwarzenegger is put on the screen, the construction of a sense or idea of a U.S. national community through the cinema. Given that the appeal to the American myth of an immigrant nation that promises to erase difference is fundamental to the Schwarzenegger star persona, the central aim of this book isto explore the uses of his stardom as an embodiment of the promise of America and its contradictions and exclusions.
Reviews
“This is an impressive work that will make innovative contributions to the fields of star studies, cultural studies, aural diversity, sound studies, world cinema studies, and many other fields.”
-- David Greven, Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gábor Gergely works at the University of Lincoln, UK. His research applies a de-westernizing method to questions of belonging and exclusion within the framework of trans/national cinema and star studies. He has published monographs on émigré actors in Hollywood and on Hungarian production history and antisemitism. He edited Stars and Stardom in Eastern European Cinemas (2022) and co-edited The Routledge Companion to European Cinema (2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Schwarzenegger
Book Subtitle: Uses of the Foreign Star
Authors: Gábor Gergely
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06951-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06950-5Published: 06 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06953-6Published: 07 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06951-2Published: 05 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Celebrity Studies, American Cinema and TV, Sociology of the Body