ABSTRACT
This chapter will be directly relevant to your work on FM2: British and American Film – Section B: British Film Topics for the WJEC’s AS level in Film Studies.
If you wish to study Julie Christie for your British star study then there is an additional full chapter that can be found in the Resources section of our companion website at https://routledge.tandf.co.uk/ textbooks/9780415454339/resources.asp
Problems of defining stars Not every recognizable actor in a film is a star, not every actor that is promoted by Hollywood or the British film industry becomes a star, and stars are not always the most beautiful or the most talented people in the film. It is these unpredictable elements which make the study of the meaning of stars so interesting.
