Hollywood Stars vs Variety Show Hosts: The incompatible case of Frank Sinatra on 1950s Television by McNally, Karen

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Hollywood Icons by Helle Kannik Haastrup

“…This article is an analysis of how Hollywood stars are represented in three central celebrity genres – the fashion magazine interview, the endorsement advertisement and the appearance of the red carpet live broadcast. …”
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Failed Cultural Hybridity and Takeaways for the Euro-Noir in the American-Romanian Series Comrade Detective by Caius Dobrescu

“…Comrade Detective (Amazon, 2017) is a crime spoof that employs Romanian actors dubbed by famous Hollywood stars to pretend to recover a propaganda TV series produced in 1980s Communist Romania. …”
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Quand écrire sur les murs passe de la clandestinité au marché de l’art : Exit Through the Gift Shop, un vertige de vrai et de faux pour une histoire du street art by Marie Bouchet

“…It was made by the world-famous, though mysterious, street artist Banksy and, as its title indicates, it is characterized by a reflection on the transformation of street art, an illegal, nocturnal art form that made its way into museums and the private collections of Hollywood stars in the late 2000s. This «mockumentary», as some journalists call it, plays with blurring the limits between truth and lies, uses mise en abyme effects and reversals, and stages the shifting of power that has occurred around street art.…”
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Barbara Stanwyck’s Grey Hair by Silvia Vacirca

“…Unlike many Hollywood stars of her generation, Barbara Stanwyck extended and diversified her film career during the 1950s by starring in numerous B-series westerns, where her dominant image of independent, tough woman, questioned the limits of gender and genre. …”
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Du star system au people by Jean-Pierre Esquenazi

“…The strategy that consists in associating the private lives of public figures with certain commercial products originated with the Hollywood star system. The media and cultural industries have expanded this system and transformed public figures outside Hollywood into stars, that is into live and marketable images. …”
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Importance of ice for the «White Olympics» by A. F. Renkel

“…Leaving the amateurish sport, Henie became a Hollywood star of the ballet on ice. She was introduced to the inventor Frank Zamboni, who created the ice re-surfacer (the ice-cleaning combine) to restore the ice on skating rinks. …”
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He’s Still Here by Penny Spirou

“…The film draws attention to both the star and the fan and their joint contribution in developing the myth of the Hollywood star. However, primarily, it shows Phoenix’s transition from star to celebrity, as argued in this paper. …”
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