Revisiting Star Studies

Cultures, Themes and Methods

Sabrina Qiong Yu, Guy Austin

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474404327
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Is classical Hollywood stardom the last word on film stars? How do film stars function in non-Hollywood contexts, such as Bollywood, East Asia and Latin America, and what new developments has screen stardom undergone in recent years, both in Hollywood and elsewhere? Gathering together the most important new research on star studies, with case studies of stars from many different cultures, this diverse and dynamic collection looks at film stardom from new angles, challenging the received wisdom on the subject and raising important questions about image, performance, bodies, voices and fans in cultures across the globe. 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.

Table of contents

• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Performing stardom: star studies in transformation and expansion
• PART 1 Star Performance
• 1. Revisiting performance: Nicole Kidman’s enactment of stardom
• 2. Film stars in the perspective of performance studies: play, liminality and alteration in Chinese
• PART 2 Star Voices
• 3. ‘Speaking in a forked tongue’: Anna May Wong’s linguistic cosmopolitanism*
• 4. Song taxonomies: Indian popular cinema’s territories of stardom
• PART 3 Stars and ethnicity
• 5. Whitewashing the Dreamgirls: Beyoncé, Diana Ross and the commodification of blackness
• 6. Darsheel Safary: globalisation, liberalisation and the changing face of the Bollywood child star
• PART 4 Stars and Ageing
• 7. ‘When Barbara strips off her petticoats and straps on her guns’: Barbara Stanwyck, maturity and s
• 8. Confronting the impossibility of impossible bodies: Tom Cruise and the ageing male action hero mo
• PART 5 Stars and Audiences
• 9. Heroines at the outskirts of culture: Hollywood stardom in intra-- and transcultural practices of
• 10. YouTube as archive: fans, gender and Mexican film stars online
• 11. In your face: Montgomery Clift comes out as crip in The Young Lions
• 12. ‘Una diva non come le altre’: Le streghe and the paradoxical stardom of Silvana Mangano
• PART 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
• 14. Celebrity creatures: the ‘starification’ of the cinematic animal
• The contributors
• Index