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9781474404310

Revisiting Star Studies Cultures, Themes and Methods

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  • ISBN13:

    9781474404310

  • ISBN10:

    1474404316

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2017-05-01
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Author Biography


Dr Sabrina Qiong Yu is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Newcastle.

Professor Guy Austin is Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle.

Table of Contents


Introduction
Performing Stardom: Star Studies in Transformation and Expansion - Sabrina Qiong Yu

Part 1: Star Performance
Revisiting Performance: Nicole Kidman's Enactment of Stardom - Pam Cook
Film Stars in the Perspective of Performance Studies: Play, Liminality, and Alteration in Chinese Cinema - Yingjin Zhang

Part 2: Star Voices
'Speaking in a Forked Tongue': Anna May Wong's Linguistic Cosmopolitanism - Yiman Wang
Song Taxonomies: Indian Popular Cinema's Territories of Stardom - Kiranmayi Indraganti

Part 3: Stars and Ethnicity
Whitewashing the Dreamgirls: Connecting the Star Images of Beyoncé and Diana Ross - Jaap Kooijman
Darsheel Safary: Globalization, Liberalisation and the Changing Face of the Bollywood Child Star - Michael Lawrence

Part 4: Stars and Ageing
'When Barbara strips off her petticoats and straps on her guns': Barbara Stanwyck, Maturity, and Stardom in the 1950s and 1960s - Linda Berkvens
Confronting the impossibility of impossible bodies: Tom Cruise and the ageing male action hero movie - Lisa Purse

Part 5: Stars and Audiences
Heroines at the Outskirts of Culture: De-Romanticising Hollywood Queens - Ania Malinowska
Betwixt and Between: Gender and Mexican Film Stars Online - Niamh Thornton

Part 6: Aberrant Stardom
In your face: Montgomery Clift comes out as crip in The Young Lions - Elisabetta Girelli
La Diva Bruciata Viva: Le Streghe (The Witches) and the paradoxical stardom of Silvana Mangano - Leon Hunt

Part 7: At the margins of film stardom
'I want James Deen to Deen Me with his Deen': The multi-layered stardom of James Deen - Sarah Harman & Clarissa Smith
Celebrity Creatures: The 'Starification' of the Cinematic Animal - Stella Hockenhull

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