With revelatory insights and delightful asides, she shows us how the machine worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn’t, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios worked to manufacture star actors and actresses. Seller Inventory # 023141įrom one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis. *Packed carefully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in pristine condition. Mint, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. (Both Lana Turner and Errol Flynn, for instance, were involved in notorious court cases.) Deeply engrossing, full of energy, wit, and wisdom, THE STAR MACHINE is an invaluable part of the film canon. She analyses their careers, showing how their fame happened and what happened to them as a result.
She gives us the "human factor," case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the system the "awesomely beautiful" (and disillusioned) Tyrone Power the seductive, disobedient Lana Turner and a dazzling cast of others-Loretta Young, Errol Flynn, Irene Dunne, Deanna Durbin.
With revelatory insights and delightful asides, she shows us how the machine worked_when_ it worked, how it failed when it didn't, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. Film historian Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the "star machine," examining how at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios worked to manufacture star actors and actresses.
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