Superstars Power, Mining the Paths to Stars' Persuasion

摘要

This paper analyzes the influence of star power on the cinema market. The study adopts two gauges of star power, one based on the industry's opinion and one based on the market's interest. The article merges contributions in the persuasion and cinema market literatures to examine the influence of star power over spectators. This study use machine learning methods based on support vector ordinal regression to analyze the paths to superstars' persuasion. The present research shows differences in the persuasion effect of star power based on the industry and star power based on the market. Similarly, there are differences in the influence of star power among men and women. The results of this study help to explain the mixed findings of previous research on superstars' power.