Richard Dyer's Star Theory

 Richard Dyer states that:

• "stars are commodities that are produced by institutions"
• "A star is a constructed image, represented across a range of media and mediums"
• "stars represent and embody certain ideologies"
• "A star is an image not a real person that is constructed (as any other aspect of fiction is) out of a range of materials (e.g. advertising magazines etc. as well as films and music)" (1979)