Contents

pp v-vii

List of Figures

pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Introduction: Performing stardom: star studies in transformation and expansion

pp 1-22

PART 1 - STAR PERFORMANCE

pp 23-24

1 - Revisiting performance: Nicole Kidman's enactment of stardom

pp 25-44

2 - Film stars in the perspective of performance studies: play, liminality and alteration in Chinese Cinema

pp 45-62

PART 2 - STAR VOICES

pp 63-64

3 - ‘Speaking in a forked tongue’: Anna May Wong's linguistic cosmopolitanism

pp 65-83

4 - Song taxonomies: Indian popular cinema's territories of stardom

pp 84-102

PART 3 - STARS AND ETHNICITY

pp 103-104

5 - Whitewashing the Dreamgirls: Beyoncé, Diana Ross and the commodification of blackness

pp 105-124

6 - Darsheel Safary: globalisation, liberalisation and the changing face of the Bollywood child star

pp 125-144

PART 4 - STARS AND AGEING

pp 145-146

7 - ‘When Barbara strips off her petticoats and straps on her guns’: Barbara Stanwyck, maturity and stardom in the 1950s and 1960s

pp 147-161

8 - Confronting the impossibility of impossible bodies: Tom Cruise and the ageing male action hero movie

pp 162-184

PART 5 - STARS AND AUDIENCES

pp 185-186

9 - Heroines at the outskirts of culture: Hollywood stardom in intra-and transcultural practices of Camp

pp 187-204

10 - YouTube as archive: fans, gender and Mexican film stars online

pp 205-222

PART 6 - ABERRANT STARDOM

pp 223-224

11 - In your face: Montgomery Clift comes out as crip in The Young Lions

pp 225-239

12 - ‘Una diva non come le altre’: Le streghe and the paradoxical stardom of Silvana Mangano

pp 240-258

PART 7 - AT THE MARGINS OF FILM STARDOM

pp 259-260

13 - ‘I want James Deen to Deen me with his Deen’: the multi-layered stardom of James Deen

pp 261-278

14 - Celebrity creatures: the ‘starification’ of the cinematic animal

pp 279-294

Notes on the contributors

pp 295-298

Index

pp 299-310