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Stars are central to the cinema experience, and this collection offers a variety of fresh and informed perspectives on this important but sometimes neglected area of film studies.This book takes as its focus film stars from the past and present, from Hollywood, its margins and beyond and analyses them through a close consideration of their films and the variety of contexts in which they worked.The book spreads the net wide, looking at past stars from Rosalind Russell and Charlton Heston to present day stars including Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, as well as those figures who have earnt themselves a certain film star cachet such as Prince, and the martial artist Cynthia Rothrock.The collection will be essential reading for students and lecturers of film studies, as well as to those with a general interest in the cinema.
Andrew Willis is Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford
Introduction - Andy Willis1. Clara Bow is 'It' - Cynthia Felando2. Contesting the feminine mystique: Rosalind Russell, 'Auntie Mame' and performativity - Jane Hendler3. 'Charlton Heston is an axiom': Spectacle and performance in the development of the blockbuster - Mark Jancovich4. Jim Carrey: The cultural politics of dumbing down - Philip Drake5. The rise and fall of Sandra Bullock: Notes on starmaking and female stardom in contemporary Hollywood - Peter Krämer6. Rumble in the USA: Jackie Chan in translation - Mark Gallagher7. Kenneth Branagh: Shakespearean film, cultural capital and star status - Nick Cox8. 'Baby I'm a star': Towards a political economy of the actor formally known as Prince - Lisa Taylor9. Cynthia Rothrock: From the ghetto of exploitation - Andy Willis
