Introduction - Andy Willis
1. Clara Bow is 'It' - Cynthia Felando
2. Contesting the feminine mystique: Rosalind Russell, 'Auntie Mame' and performativity - Jane Hendler
3. 'Charlton Heston is an axiom': Spectacle and performance in the development of the blockbuster - Mark Jancovich
4. Jim Carrey: The cultural politics of dumbing down - Philip Drake
5. The rise and fall of Sandra Bullock: Notes on starmaking and female stardom in contemporary Hollywood - Peter Krämer
6. Rumble in the USA: Jackie Chan in translation - Mark Gallagher
7. Kenneth Branagh: Shakespearean film, cultural capital and star status - Nick Cox
8. 'Baby I'm a star': Towards a political economy of the actor formally known as Prince - Lisa Taylor
9. Cynthia Rothrock: From the ghetto of exploitation - Andy Willis

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Andrew Willis is Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford

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