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Transnational Stardom

International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture

Edited by Russell Meeuf and Raphael Raphael

Type
Essays
Subject
General
Keywords
stars, global, ideology
Publishing date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Collection
Global Cinema
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Hardcover • 302 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¾ inches (14 x 22 cm)
ISBN
978-1-137-26827-3
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Book Presentation:
Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the essays in this collection explore how the plasticity of stars helps disparate peoples manage the shifting ideologies of a transnational world.

About the authors:
Grace An, Oberlin College, USA Mary Beltran, University of Texas at Austin, USA María Elena Cepeda, Williams College, USA Corey Creekmur, University of Iowa, USA Liz Czach, University of Alberta, Canada Lisa Funnell, University of Oklahoma, USA Mark Gallagher, University of Nottingham, UK Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon, USA Charlie Henniker, Director/Producer, UK Miguel Fernández Labayen, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Sreya Mitra, Independent Scholar, USA Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Lauren Steimer, University of South Carolina, USA

Press Reviews:
To come.

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan

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