Stars

What do Star Represents?

• Stars function as a signifier... they mediate a single, specifiable meaning

• Stars embody "hot media values" - Marshall Mulch

• A star is made "in the depths of the collective conscious" embody a societal need/ desire - Richard Griffins 

Meaning of Stars

* Stars are structured "POLYSEMIES"

they contain "a multiplicity of meanings and effects"

some are foregrounded, some are masked.



POP STARS 

"Pop Stars"
--> Justin Bieber 

--> Rihanna 

--> Katy Perry 

• people like me would describe these stars as...

- unreachable

- shine = brightly

- worship

*MASS ENTERTAINMENT --> Hollywood CINEMA 

THEORY OF RICHARD DYER - 1979

= "A star is an image not a real person that is constructed (just like any other fiction/ from a range of materials)

Range of Materials:

1. promotion
2. publicity
3. creativity
4. criticism