Deconstructing Brad Pitt
Editat de Dr. Christopher Schaberg, Professor Robert Bennetten Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 noi 2014
Analiza propusă în acest volum pornește de la studiile de caz aplicate asupra unor roluri emblematice și fenomene mediatice, de la „furia suburbană” din Fight Club până la construcția mitului „Brangelina”. Descoperim aici o deconstrucție riguroasă a modului în care o singură figură publică poate genera reacții emoționale atât de contrastante, oscilând între admirație și scepticism. Structura cărții este organizată progresiv, începând cu formarea identității actorului în peisajul din Montana și culminând cu analize complexe despre simulacre, arhetipuri oedipiene și influența sa în spațiul civic.
Remarcăm modul în care Christopher Schaberg și Robert Bennett reușesc să transforme curiozitatea publicului larg într-un obiect de studiu academic valid, păstrând în același timp un stil accesibil. Cititorii familiarizați cu Stars in Our Eyes de Angela Ndalianis vor aprecia modul în care acest volum trece de la analiza generală a sistemului de staruri la o examinare microscopică, aproape chirurgicală, a unui singur subiect. Dacă lucrările teoretice anterioare explorau celebritatea ca pe un concept abstract, lucrarea de față o ancorează în performanțele și prezența fizică a lui Pitt.
Poziționăm această lucrare în contextul preocupărilor editorului Dr. Christopher Schaberg, cunoscut pentru seria Object Lessons și volume precum Ballot sau Restaurant. La fel cum în acele lucrări Schaberg extrage semnificații profunde din obiecte cotidiene, în Deconstructing Brad Pitt el tratează imaginea actorului ca pe un „obiect cultural” multifatetat. Reținem că această ediție de la Bloomsbury Academic nu este doar o biografie, ci o investigație critică asupra modului în care ne raportăm la iconografia contemporană, fiind esențială pentru cei care studiază dinamica dorinței și a consumului de media.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1623561795
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 45 illus
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din media și studenților la sociologie care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele din spatele faimei globale. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care un actor devine un nod de semnificații culturale. Este un instrument teoretic rar, care reușește să explice de ce suntem fascinați de vedete, folosindu-l pe Brad Pitt ca studiu de caz definitoriu pentru secolul XXI.
Descriere
Co-editors Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett have shaped a book that is not simply a multifaceted analysis of Brad Pitt as an actor and as a celebrity, but which is also a personal inquiry into how we are drawn to, turned on, or otherwise piqued by Pitt's performances and personae. Written in accessible prose and culled from the expertise of scholars across different fields, Deconstructing Brad Pitt lingers on this iconic actor and elucidates his powerful influence on contemporary culture.
The editors will be donating a portion of their royalties to Pitt's Make It Right foundation.
Cuprins
FOREWORD Robert Bennett, Montana State University-Bozeman, USA
PREFACE Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
INTRODUCTION
1. Making Montana Ben Leubner, Montana State University-Bozeman, USA
2. Romantic Hero Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College, USA
3. On Crashing Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
4. Suburban Rage Robert Bennett, Montana State University-Bozeman, USA
5. Abyss of Simulation Randy Laist, Goodwin College, USA
6. Brangelina Blend Michele White, Tulane University, USA
7. Art Muse Sarah Juliet Lauro, Clemson University, USA
8. Oedipus Cop Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK
9. Anger of Achilles Rick Hudson, Bath Spa University, UK
10. Becoming Brad Bob Batchelor, Thiel College, USA
11. A Star is Born Andy Horton, University of Oklahoma, USA
12. Brad Pitt for Mayor Thomas Bayer, Tulane University, USA
13. Gay for Brad Edmond Y. Chang, Drew University, USA
CODA: FAILURE Brian A. Sullivan, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
POSTSCRIPT? MADNESS Robert Bennett, Montana State University-Bozeman, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX Susan Clements, USA
ARTWORK Nancy Bernardo, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Recenzii
Deconstructing Brad Pitt will shock you the moment you find out it exists. The instinctive reaction to such a work is that academic analysis and Hollywood stardom do not to make good bedfellows. This is exactly why you open the first page, and you find yourself hooked ... It is a highly readable book, full of personal insights, first-person narratives and analyses based on the cultural studies literature.
In this exciting anthology, Schaberg and Bennett continue the work of DeAngelis, Negra, and Pomerance, once again demonstrating that an intensive study of a popular Hollywood film star will reveal not the margins, but the center of how American culture functions. The path charted by Richard Dyer 35 years ago has led to a flourishing of analyses of stardom, wonderfully executed here by Schaberg, Bennett, and their collaborators, who skillfully interrogate Brad Pitt's cinematic, popular, and political image. The first rule of Brad Pitt Studies is you MUST read and talk about _Deconstructing Brad Pitt!
_Deconstructing Brad Pitt, edited by Robert Bennett and Christopher Schaberg, is an anthology of multi-disciplinary, multi-perspectival engagements with the figure of Brad Pitt. The book is a strange and compelling meshwork of affect, memory and desire, as each author/artist follows a richly surprising line that leads readers to places they might never have found on their own. Some of these places are whimsical while others are more perilous and reverberate with disaster, crises, madness, and failure. It would quite miss the point to say that this collection is a celebrity study - it transverses multiple disciplines from cultural studies to psychoanalysis to new materialist feminism and queer theory. Yet, it is not bound by any of these approaches. Ranging from visual essays to personal accounts, the collection articulates "Brad Pitt" as an event that is proximate to place, industry, nature, ruin, representation, and resilience. Moving into and away from the performative features of Brad Pitt, as celebrity and as citizen who could be considered the unofficial mayor of New Orleans, _Deconstructing Brad Pitt invites us to imagine what it might be like to theorize engagement as entanglement, as a productive crash into the objects that surround us. It invites us to take seriously what others too quickly ignore or leave behind.
An in-depth look into the cultural phenomenon called Brad Pitt, this book is for both fans and detractors of the actor. If you are expecting tabloid fodder and TMZ-like stories, don't pick up this book because Deconstructing Brad Pitt by Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett is a serious academic treatise which happens to be an easy and fun read.
Deconstructing Brad Pitt is an ambitious exploration of Brad Pitt as a man, actor and celebrity. ...a fascinating exploration of Brad Pitt as an icon, the roles he has played and the impact of his celebrity status on contemporary life.
Overall Deconstructing Brad Pitt is a compelling read, most suitable for a scholarly audience though accessible to well-read mass audience that seeks thoughtful commentary on American popular culture. Pitt as actor, celebrity, philanthropist, father, partner, environmentalist, liberal activist, man, tabloid fodder, artist sheds light on many aspects of American popular culture and society.
Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett's edited collection Deconstructing Brad Pitt is an extremely remarkable volume and honest to the core ... It is the first academic study focused on the superstar, and it helps introduce Brad in newer ways to his readers as well as his fans.