Cover
Title Page
Imprint Page
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