Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
From Angry Young Man to Icon of Neo-liberal India: Extra-cinematic Strategies that Make Amitabh Bachchan India’s Lasting Super-Star....Pages 11-25
Cutting a Dash in Interwar Hungary: Pál Jávor’s Enduring Stardom....Pages 27-40
From Boy N the Hood to Hollywood Mogul: Ice Cube’s Lasting Stardom in Contemporary Hollywood....Pages 41-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-67
‘What Price Widowhood?’: The Faded Stardom of Norma Shearer....Pages 69-69
Robert Taylor: The ‘Lost’ Star with the Long Career....Pages 71-83
Melanie Griffith: Wild Girl and Working Woman....Pages 85-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-112
Ageing Masculinity in the Films of James Mason....Pages 113-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-126
The Afterlives of Rudolph Valentino and Wallace Reid in the 1920s and 1930s....Pages 127-139
Beyond the Bounds of Criticism: Preserving Spencer Tracy as a Liberal Hero....Pages 141-155
Everybody’s All-American: The Posthumous Rebranding of Marlon Brando....Pages 157-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-171
Mrs John Bull: The Later Life Stardom of Margaret Rutherford....Pages 173-187
This Never Happened to the Other Fellow: The Fluctuating Stardom of James Bond and George Lazenby....Pages 189-199
Don’t You Forget about Me: Molly Ringwald, Nostalgia and Teen Girl Stardom....Pages 201-201
Redundancy and Ageing: Sylvester Stallone’s Enduring Action Star Image....Pages 203-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-230
Still Famous: Fixing the Star Image of Diana Dors in the Photography of Cornel Lucas....Pages 231-243
From Action Babe to Mature Actress: The Place of Humanitarianism in Angelina Jolie’s Lasting Screen Career....Pages 245-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Rearticulating Bruce Lee and His ‘Hip Hop Fury’ in Fan-Made Videos....Pages 261-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-290
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