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Between Parturition and Manufacture
All versions of "A Star Is Born" in various ways worry away at the ambiguity in the title. What does it mean to say a star is “born”?...
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Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus at King’s College and Honorary Professor at St Andrews’s, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Stars, Heavenly Bodies, White, The Culture of Queers, Pastiche, In the Space of a Song, Lethal Repetition, and La dolce vita.