Lasting Screen Stars (eBook)

Lucy Bolton is senior lecturer in film studies at Queen Mary University of London and the author of Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women (Palgrave 2011). Her research includes film stardom, particularly in classical Hollywood cinema, and film philosophy.Julie Lobalzo Wright is a Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Surrey,UK. Her main research concerns music stars in British and American cinema and has published on David Bowie's film stardom, in addition to more widely on music and film and stardom. Her monograph, Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Music Stars in American Cinema is forthcoming (2017).

Acknowledgements.- List of Illustrations.- Foreword by Sue Harris.- Introduction.- Section 1: Lasting Stardom.- 1. Aparna Sharma, 'From Angry Young Men to Brand Bachchan — Extra-cinematic Strategies that make India’s lasting Super-Star’.- 2. Antonella Palmieri, ‘Sophia Loren and the Healing Power of Female Italian Ethnicity in Grumpier Old Men’.- 3. Gabor Gergely, ‘Cutting a Dash in Interwar Hungry: The Enduring Stardom of Pál Jávor’.- 4. Julie Lobalzo Wright, ‘From Boy N the Hood to Hollywood Mogul: Ice Cube’s Lasting Stardom in Contemporary Hollywood’.- Section 2: Faded Stardom.- 5. Lies Lanckman, ‘The Queen’s Household: Norma Shearer, Stardom and Domesticity’.- 6. Gillian Kelly, ‘Robert Taylor: The “Lost” Star With the Long Career’.- 7. Lucy Bolton, ‘Melanie Griffith: Wild Child and Working Woman’.- Section 3: Ageing.- 8. Fiona Handyside, ‘The Ageing Stars of European Art-House Cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva in Amour’.- 9. Paul Flaig, ‘The Great Stoneface Ruined: From The Buster Keaton Story to Film’.- 10. Adrian Garvey, ‘Masculinity and Ageing in the Films of James Mason’.- Section 4: Posthumous Stardom.- 11. Lisa Bode, ‘The Afterlives of Rudolph Valentino and Wallace Reid in the 1920s and 1930s’.- 12. Hannah Graves, ‘Beyond the Bounds of Criticism: Preserving Spencer Tracy as a Liberal Hero’.- 13. Lisa Patti, ‘Everybody’s All-American: The Posthumous Rebranding of Marlon Brando’.- Section 5: Characters, Series and Types.- 14. Claire Mortimer, ‘Mrs. John Bull: The Later Life Stardom of Margaret Rutherford’.- 15. Japp Verheul, ‘¬¬This Never Happened to the Other Fellow: The Fluctuating Stardom of James Bond and George Lazenby’.- 16. Frances Smith, ‘Don’t You Forget About Me: Molly Ringwald, Nostalgia and Teen Girl Stardom’.- 17. Glen Donnar, ‘Redundancy and Ageing: Sylvester Stallone’s Enduring Action Star Image’.- Section 6: Reflections Beyond the Screen.- 18. Linda Marchant, ‘Still Famous: Fixing the Star Image of Diana Dors in the Photography of Cornel Lucas’.- 19. Joshua Gulam, ‘From Action Babe to Mature Actress: The Place of Humanitarianism in Angelina Jolie’s Lasting Screen Career’.- 20. Dorothy Wai-sim Lau, ‘Rearticulating Bruce Lee and his “Hip-Hop Fury” in Fan Made Videos’.- List of Contributors.- Index