How Long to Read Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity

How Long Does it Take to Read Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity by Mandy Merck

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the seventeenth century and the theatre of the eighteenth, she demonstrates its convergence in stage melodrama and its intensification in the Hollywood star system. Are today's celebrities worth our attention? In that demand for judgement and the hope for its visual guidance, the melodramatic imagination survives –...

How long is Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity?

Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity by Mandy Merck is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity aloud.

What Reading Level is Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity?

Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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