Stars : the film reader /
Stars: The Film Reader brings together key writings and new perspectives on stars and stardom in film and television, addressing questions of production, labor and circulation, and examining neglected areas of study such as the director as star, connections between stardom and avantgarde filmmaking,...
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | In focus--Routledge film readers.
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Table of Contents:
- The subject of acting / Danae Clark
- Marlene: modernity, mortality, and the biopic / Lucy Fischer
- Action movie hysteria, or Eastwood bound / Paul Smith
- Negotiating exoticism: Hollywood film Europe and the cultural reception of Anna May Wong
- Tim Bergfelder
- Sophia Loren, Italian icon / Stephen Gundle
- Reigning stars: the political career of South Indian cinema / M. Madhava Prasad
- Muscles and subjectivity: a short history of the masculine body in Hong Kong popular culture / Kwai-Cheung Lo
- Performance and persona in the U.S. avantgarde: the case of Maya Deren / Maria Pramaggiore
- Camping with Lady Divine: star persona and parody / Dan M. Harries.
- Stars and ethnicity: Hollywood and the United States, 1932-51 / Ian C. Jarvie
- Hollywood exoticism / Sarah Berry
- Paul Robeson: crossing over / Richard Dyer
- Opera, folklore, and ethnicity: the case of Mario Lanza / Marcia Landy
- Roseanne: the unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
- C'mon girl: Oprah Winfrey and the discourse of feminine talk / Gloria-Jean Masciarotte
- The moving image in crisis: disaster and memory / Wheeler Winston Dixon.