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The Ambiguous Aura of Hollywood Stars in Avant-Garde Found-Footage Films
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 41, Number 2, Winter 2002
- pp. 3-18
- 10.1353/cj.2002.0006
- Article
- Additional Information
When working with footage of Hollywood stars, avant-garde filmmakers subject these stars' images to a complex dialectic of critique and admiration, analysis and appreciation, deconstruction and reconstruction. The resulting images invest the stars' original auras with a new, more ambiguous significance.