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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• PART ONE: STARS AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON
• 1 Conditions for Stardom
• 2 Production: Consumption
• Origins of stardom
• Stars as a phenomenon of production
• Stars as a phenomenon of consumption
• 3 Ideology
• Star versus character
• Life–as-theatre
• A historical paradigm –from gods to mortals
• Stars and the status quo
• Compensation
• Charisma
• PART TWO: STARS AS IMAGES
• 4 Stars as Stars
• Consumption
• Success
• Ordinariness – are stars ‘different’?
• The dream soured
• Love
• 5 Stars as Types
• The notion of social type
• Alternative or subversive types
• 6 Stars as Specific Images
• A specific image: Jane Fonda
• PART THREE: STARS AS SIGNS
• 7 Stars and ‘Character’
• The notion of character
• The construction of character
• Stars as characters in films
• 8 Stars and Performance
• Trends in the study of performance
• Performance signs
• 9 A Note on Authorship
• CONCLUSION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER: RECONCEPTUALISING STARDOM
• SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• eCopyright