Saturday, 12 October 2013

Richard Dyer's Star Theory (Character and Personality)

Artists are presented as 'real' human beings. In other words, artists are portrayed to be ‘normal’ regular people in order for their audience to be able to relate to them. An example of this is Adele, who is conveyed to be an everyday girl who has boyfriend problems.

Stars support hegemony/dominant ideology of their time/ generation. For example girl bands are very feminist and promote girl power




 It is satisfactory for the audience to know that these artists are just glorified versions of 'us', which makes the Artists more relatable. This is shown on TV shows such as X-Factor where regular everyday people are turned into stars. 




Stars are representations of the contradictions/reinforced ideas of the music industry. 

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