Comments on: Valentino & Family Guy http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/05/29/valentino-family-guy/ On pop culture and feelings Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:20:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: brenda http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/05/29/valentino-family-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-13206 brenda Fri, 30 May 2008 19:04:03 +0000 http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/?p=678#comment-13206 <p>Well it seems like most teen idols are music stars, but they're also really part of visual culture. So records definitely pre-dated movies in terms of mass-media commercial art, but like, I would assume it would be harder to identify with a picture on a record sleeve. The movies were the first time you had a video image of someone, and I suspect that gave people the immediacy necessary for teen idol-dom. But there was really no reason to put a singer in a movie pre-sound or to film a singer singing, you know? Just a guess. As for why a teen girl's focus shifted to singers after that? I don't know. Maybe because you could play a record over and over again in your room, but you couldn't do that movies?</p> Well it seems like most teen idols are music stars, but they’re also really part of visual culture. So records definitely pre-dated movies in terms of mass-media commercial art, but like, I would assume it would be harder to identify with a picture on a record sleeve. The movies were the first time you had a video image of someone, and I suspect that gave people the immediacy necessary for teen idol-dom. But there was really no reason to put a singer in a movie pre-sound or to film a singer singing, you know? Just a guess. As for why a teen girl’s focus shifted to singers after that? I don’t know. Maybe because you could play a record over and over again in your room, but you couldn’t do that movies?

]]> By: Rachel http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2008/05/29/valentino-family-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-13205 Rachel Fri, 30 May 2008 05:41:39 +0000 http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/?p=678#comment-13205 <p>"I suspect the first teen idol being a movie star has a lot to do with the non-existence in 1921 of synchronized sound on film."</p> <p>Ooh! Why? Tell me more!</p> “I suspect the first teen idol being a movie star has a lot to do with the non-existence in 1921 of synchronized sound on film.”

Ooh! Why? Tell me more!

]]>