{"product_id":"hollywoods-others-love-and-limitation-in-the-star-system-paperback","title":"Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatherine Fusco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a number of unusual stars appeared on the silver screen, representing groups from which the American mainstream typically sought to avert its eyes. What did it mean for a white entertainment columnist to empathize with an ambiguously gendered Black child star? Or for boys to idolize Lon Chaney, famous for portraying characters with disabilities? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHollywood's Others\u003c\/i\u003e explores the affective ties between white, non-disabled audiences and the fascinatingly different stars with whom they identified--but only up to a point. Katherine Fusco argues that stardom in this era at once offered ways for viewers to connect across group boundaries while also policing the limits of empathy. Examining fan magazines alongside film performances, she traces the intense audience attachment to atypical celebrities and the ways the film industry sought to manage it. Fusco considers Shirley Temple's career in light of child labor laws and changing notions of childhood; shows how white viewers responded to Black music in depictions of the antebellum South; and analyzes the gender politics of conspiracy theories around celebrity suicides. Shedding light on marginalized stardoms and the anxieties they provoked, \u003ci\u003eHollywood's Others\u003c\/i\u003e challenges common notions about film's capacity to build empathy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Fusco is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSilent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eKelly Reichardt: Emergency and the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e (with Nicole Seymour, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64796128641373,"sku":"9780231220927","price":69.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/hdu-1rsY_l9780231220927.webp?v=1779785454","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/hollywoods-others-love-and-limitation-in-the-star-system-paperback","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}