FMST 1421 - GLOBAL STARDOM AND CELEBRITY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the analysis of the "star text" of individual stars/celebrities, which involves the interrelationship of screen-mediated roles, off-screen appearances and information, publicity material, and cultural context. Students will research a specific star/celebrity as a nexus of global circulation and fandom, while addressing some core methodological questions: what is the difference between star biography and star analysis? How do we read the "star/celebrity text" in different local contexts and ideas about the public and the private? How does stardom presume and shape norms of identity pertaining to gender, sexuality, social class, race/ethnicity, bodily norms, and other cultural values? This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Film Studies, Undergraduate Research

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