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Cult Film Stardom


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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Star-Making, Cult-Making and Forms of Authenticity; K.Egan & S.Thomas PART I: CONNECTING 'CULT' AND 'STARDOM' Cult Movies With and Without Cult Stars: Differentiating Discourses of Stardom; M.Hills Marginal Moments of Spectacle: Character Actors, Cult Stardom and Hollywood Cinema; S.Thomas PART II: CULT STARDOM AND THE MAINSTREAM: MANAGEMENT, MEDIATION AND NEGOTIATION 'You're Bill Groundhog-Day-Ghostbusting-Ass Murray': 'Mainstream' Success, Star Agency and Cult Reinvention; J.Whalley Prisoner of Cool: Chloë Sevigny, Alternative Stardom and Image Management; J.Sexton From Behind the Masks to Inside: Acting, Authenticity and the Star Wars Co-Stars; J.Scott PART III: DIRECTORS, REPUTATIONS AND CULT ACTING Vincent Price and Cult Performance: The Case of Witchfinder General; J.Smith Hal Hartley's 'Look-out-Martin-Donovan's-in the-house!' shot: The Transformative Cult Indie star-director Relationship and Performance 'idiolect'; S.Rawle Cronenberg Connected: Cameo Acting, Cult Stardom and Supertexts; E.Mathijs Low-flying Stars: Cult Stardom in Mumblecore; J.Lyons PART IV: CULT IDENTITIES: GENDER, BODIES AND OTHERNESS Damaged Beauty: Montgomery Clift, Tragedy and the Redefinition of a Star Image; K.McNally Forever Emmanuelle: Sylvia Kristel and Soft-core Cult Stardom; L.Wimmer A Real Horror Star: Articulating the Extreme Authenticity of Ingrid Pitt; K.Egan 'You're really a Miniature Bond': Weng Weng and the Transnational Dimensions of Cult Film Stardom; I.R.Smith PART V: CULT STARDOM IN CONTEXT: CONNOISSEURSHIP AND FILM CRITICISM 'The Screen's Number One and Number Two Bogeymen': The Critical Reception of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the 1930s and 1940s; M.Jancovich & S.Brown
About the Author: CYNTHIA BARON Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, USA MARK BERNARD Instructor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, USA SHANE BROWN PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK MATT HILLS Reader in Media & Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK MARK JANCOVICH Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK JAMES LYONS Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK ERNEST MATHIJS Associate Professor Film Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada KAREN MCNALLY Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Course Leader for the BA Film and Television Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK JASON SCOTT Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Leeds Trinity University College, UK JAMIE SEXTON Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University, UK IAIN ROBERT SMITH Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Roehampton, London, UK JUSTIN SMITH Principal Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK STEVEN RAWLE Lecturer in Film Studies at York St John University, UK JIM WHALLEY Full-time Researcher at De Montfort University, UK LEILA WIMMER Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781349333059
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2013
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 403 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1349333050
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification
  • Width: 140 mm


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