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Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering (Paperback)
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Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles
and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen
or weathered in the form of scandal, heartbreak, disfiguration, or
aging in an actor's real life. In Star Bodies and the Erotics of
Suffering, editors Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Colleen Glenn assemble
thirteen scholars to consider fourteen stars whose careers have
been defined by suffering on- or off-screen. Together, these essays
question assumptions that an actor's ability to project an enduring
image-both symbolic and physical-is necessary for box-office
success, demonstrating instead that disruptions often shape and
direct the star image. Contributors in this collection examine a
wide range of stars from the last seventy years. Some essays deal
with actors who have transformed temporarily for a role, or
permanently, through aging or accident, such as Joaquin Phoenix,
Daniel Day-Lewis, Mickey Rourke, Charlize Theron, and Hilary Swank.
Other essays consider stars' attempts to conceal aspects of
themselves from the public in order to maintain a palatable public
image, including Rita Hayworth, Rock Hudson, and Michael Jackson.
Some explore typecasting and audience expectations, noting how
struggles with marriage, divorce, and aging intersect in the images
of Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, and Harrison Ford. A final set
considers Sissy Spacek, Julia Roberts, and Halle Berry as women who
reconfigure negative press and restrictive gender and racial
expectations to their advantage, managing public perceptions of
suffering in ways that flummox their critics. Star Bodies and the
Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a
fresh take on casting, method acting, audience reception, and the
tensions at play in our fascination with an actor's dual role as
private individual and cultural icon.
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