Asta Nielsen, the film star system and the introduction of the long feature film
Asta Nielsen, the film star system and the introduction of the long feature film
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阿斯塔·尼尔森,电影明星制度与长篇故事片的引入
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10.1080/17460654.2022.2059833
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发表时间:
2021
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0.2
通讯作者:
Yvonne
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作者:
Zimmermann;Yvonne
Mark B. Sandberg, in Richard Abel’s 2005 Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, states that the multiple-reel feature film ‘became an important production and exhibition format for European cinema in the years 1910–1914’and that by the start of the First World War,‘the long feature film was clearly established and in some countries was beginning to supplant the variety format of short films’(Sandberg 2005, 648). There were several reasons for the emergence of multiple-reel feature films in Europe in 1910–1911. Among them was their potential for product differentiation; as Sandberg argues,‘the flood of American single-reel films by 1909–1910 gave longer films a competitive edge as an attractive alternative product from European studios’(Sandberg 2005, 649). The multiple-reel feature film has become the standard programme format and epitome of cinema entertainment worldwide since at least the early 1920s. That it originated in Europe–and not in the US, where it did not become the dominant programme format until 1916 (see Singer and Keil 2008, 19)–to counter American (and European) overproduction of onereelers may to some readers sound as astonishing as the fact that the film star and the star system was not ‘invented’by Hollywood, but had its origins as much in Europe as in the US. As Andrew Shail has shown, in his meticulous study on the origins of the film star system in early cinema, the first stardom-building publicity campaign was initiated in France in 1909 by Pathé Frères and concerned Max Linder, who is considered both the first international film star and ‘the first film star of any scale, and by a significant margin’(Shail 2019, 69). These specifics challenge standard narratives that ascribe the feature star vehicle to Hollywood.There is a growing body of research into the emergence of film stars in early cinema’s short film period (deCordova 1990; Bowser 1994; Bean 2011; Abel 2015; Shail 2019). The majority of the literature in the field of star studies, however, has focused on the post-1920 Hollywood studio star system (for example Balio 1976; Dyer 1979, 1987; Gledhill 1991; McDonald 2000, 2013; King 2015; McNally 2021)–with some rather recent exceptions on European and non-western stars (Carter 2004; Soila 2009; Majumdar 2009; Farquhar and Zhang 2010). Thus, existing scholarship on the one hand has a strong Hollywood bias and on the other hand leaves a gap between early cinema’s short film stars and post-1920 studio-based stardom. Building upon Shail’s research into the origins of the film star system, this special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture on ‘Asta Nielsen, the film star system and the introduction of the long feature film’wishes to fill this gap by adding new scholarship on film stars
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