Stardom : industry of desire

Contents:
Part I The system : -
Seeing stars / Janet Staiger -- The emergence of the star system in America / Richard deCordova -- The Carole Lombard in Macy's window / Charles Eckert -- The building of popular images : Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe / Thomas Harris -- Fatal beauties : black women in Hollywood / Karen Alexander --
Part II Stars and society : -
Charisma / Richard Dyer -- Shirley Temple and the house of Rockefeller / Charles Eckert -- 'Puffed sleeves before tea-time' : Joan Crawford, Adrian and women audiences / Charlotte Cornelia Herzog and Jane Marie Gaines -- The return of Jimmy Stewart : the publicity photograph as text / Charles Wolfe -- Three Indian film stars / Behroze Gandhy and Rosie Thomas -- A Star Is Born and the construction of authenticity / Richard Dyer -- Feminine fascinations : forms of indentification in star-audience relations / Jackie Stacey --
Part III Performers and signs : -
Articulating stardom / Barry King -- Screen acting and the commutation test / John O. Thompson - Stars and genre / Andrew Britton -- Signs of melodrama / Christine Gledhill --
Part IV Desire, meaning and politics : -
In defence of violence / Michel Mourlet -- The politics of 'Jane Fonda' / Tessa Perkins -- The glut of the personality / David Lusted -- Pleasure, ambivalence, identification : Valentino and female spectatorship / Miriam Hansen -- 'A queer feeling when I look at you' : Hollywood stars and lesbian spectatorship in the 1930s / Andrea Weiss -- Monster metaphors : notes on Michael Jackson's Thriller / Kobena Mercer -
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