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Index
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
PART ONE: THE SILENT STAR
1 Mary Pickford: The Biograph Girl
2 Pola Negri: Inventing the Star
3 Charlie Chaplin: The Tramp
PART TWO: THE GOLDEN AGE
4 ‘Asta’ and ‘Cheeta’: The Animal Star
5 Peter Lorre: Character Actor
6 Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly: A Star Danced
7 Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant: The Public Image
8 Vivien Leigh: Ruinous Selves
9 Veronica Lake: Half-obscured Faces
10 Carole Lombard: The Screwball Heroine
11 Greer Garson and Joan Fontaine: The Forgotten Star
12 Orson Welles: The Film Star as Fragment and Failure
13 Ingrid Bergman: Intermezzo
PART THREE: NATIONAL CINEMAS – STARS FOR THE NATION
14 Lamberto Maggiorani and Maria Pia Casilio: Absent Film Stars in Vittorio De Sica’s Films
15 Moira Shearer: The Marionette
16 Gloria Swanson: Having a Face
17 Ava Gardner: I Am Not an Actress
18 Montgomery Clift: He’s Not There
19 Setsuko Hara: The Still Point
20 Toshiro Mifune: Studying Lions
21 Nargis and Raj Kapoor: My Heart Is Hindustani
22 Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni: Nothing Is Sadder than Laughter
23 John Wayne: How to Grow Old
24 Audrey Hepburn: Frankenstein’s Creature
25 Marilyn Monroe: The Suffering Star
26 Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner: Imitation of Life
PART FOUR: NEW WAVE STARS
27 Janet Leigh and Tippi Hedren: Torturing the Audience
28 Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant: The Strange Death of the Hollywood Golden Age
29 Anna Karina: The Muse
30 Celia Johnson and Julie Christie: The Adulterous Star
31 Sidney Poitier: The Defiant One
32 Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man
33 Woody Allen: The Director as Star
34 Robert De Niro: For Real
PART FIVE: POSTHUMAN STARS
35 Harrison Ford: Blade Runner and the Replication of the Person
36 Maggie Cheung: Centre Stage
37 Naomi Watts: Mulholland Drive
38 Scarlett Johansson: A New Kind of Emptiness
39 Shu Qi: A Placeless Heaven
40 Andy Serkis: Lear’s Shadow
Afterword
References
Acknowledgements
Index
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