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Lasting Stars examines the issue of stardom and longevity and investigates the many reasons for the persistence or disappearance of different star personas. Through a selection of chapters that look at issues such as inappropriate ageing, national identity and physical characteristics, this book will be the first volume to consider in depth and breadth the factors that affect the longevity of film stardom.
The range of stars includes popular stars who are approached from fresh angles (Brando, Loren), less popular stars whose lower-profiles than their peers may be surprising (Taylor, Shearer) and stars whose national identity is integral to their perception as they age (Riva, Bachchan, Pavor). There are stars from the beginning of Hollywood (Valentino, Reid) to the present day (Jolie), and those who made uneasy transitions between countries (Mason), ages (Ringwald) and industrial eras (Keaton). The book examines the range of factors that affect how star images endure, including appropriate and inappropriate ageing (Griffith), race (Ice Cube) and digital technologies (Lee).

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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

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