Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods

From Hollywood To Bollywood, From China To Italy, And From Poland To Mexico, This Collection Revisits The Definitions And Origins Of Star Studies, And Points The Way Forward To New Ways Of Approaching The Field. Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. 1 Star Performance -- 1. Revisiting Performance: Nicole Kidman's Enactment Of Stardom / Pam Cook -- 2. Film Stars In The Perspective Of Performance Studies: Play, Liminality And Alteration In Chinese Cinema / Yingjin Zhang -- Pt. 2 Star Voices -- 3. `speaking In A Forked Tongue': Anna May Wong's Linguistic Cosmopolitanism / Yiman Wang -- 4. Song Taxonomies: Indian Popular Cinema's Territories Of Stardom / Kiranmayi Indraganti -- Pt. 3 Stars And Ethnicity -- 5. Whitewashing The Dreamgirls: Beyonce, Diana Ross And The Commodification Of Blackness / Jaap Kooijman -- 6. Darsheel Safary: Globalisation, Liberalisation And The Changing Face Of The Bollywood Child Star / Michael Lawrence -- Pt. 4 Stars And Ageing -- 7. `when Barbara Strips Off Her Petticoats And Straps On Her Guns': Barbara Stanwyck, Maturity And Stardom In The 1950s And 1960s / Linda Berkvens -- 8. Confronting The Impossibility Of Impossible Bodies: Tom Cruise And The Ageing Male Action Hero Movie / Lisa Purse -- Pt. 5 Stars And Audiences -- 9. Heroines At The Outskirts Of Culture: Hollywood Stardom In Intra- And Transcultural Practices Of Camp / Anna Malinowska -- 10. Youtube As Archive: Fans, Gender And Mexican Film Stars Online / Niamh Thornton -- Pt. 6 Aberrant Stardom -- 11. In Your Face: Montgomery Clift Comes Out As Crip In The Young Lions / Elisabetta Girelli -- 12. `una Diva Non Come Le Altre': Le Streghe And The Paradoxical Stardom Of Silvana Mangano / Leon Hunt -- Pt. 7 At The Margins Of Film Stardom -- 13. `i Want James Deen To Deen Me With His Deen': The Multi-layered Stardom Of James Deen / Sarah Taylor-harman -- 14. Celebrity Creatures: The `starification' Of The Cinematic Animal / Stella Hockenhull. Edited By Sabrina Qiong Yu And Guy Austin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.