Pretty People

Movie Stars of the 1990s

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2012
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-5245-3 (ISBN)

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In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. This examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality.

In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself was signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality.

Such actors as Denzel Washington, Andy Garcia, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, and Antonio Banderas became bona fide movie stars who carried major films to amazing box-office success. Five of the decade’s top ten films were opened by three women—Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, and Whoopi Goldberg. “Chick flick” entered the lexicon as Leonardo DiCaprio became the “King of the World,” ushering in the cult of the mega celebrity. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise defined screen masculinity as stark contrasts between “the regular guy” and “the intense guy” while the roles of Michael Douglas exemplified the endangered “Average White Male.” A fascinating composite portrait of 1990s Hollywood and its stars, this collection marks the changes to stardom and society at century’s end.

ANNA EVERETT is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949 and Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace and founding editor of the journal Screening Noir.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Corporeal Charisma
2. Jodie Foster: Feminist Hero?
3. Denzel Washington: A Revisionist Black Masculinity
4. Julia Roberts: Cultural Phenomenon
5. Leonardo DiCaprio: King of the “World”
6. Antonio Banderas, Andy Garcia, and Edward James Olmos: Stardom, Masculinity, and “Latinidades”
7. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise: The Box Office and “True Masculinity”
8. Angela Bassett and Halle Berry: African American Leading Ladies
9. Michael Douglas: An Ordinary Man
10. Pierce Brosnan: Licensed to Sell
11. Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves: Hollywood and the Iconoclasts
In the Wings
Works Cited
Contributors
Index

Reihe/Serie	Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
Co-Autor	Murray Pomerance, Mary Beth Haralovich, Toby Miller, Linda Ruth Williams
Zusatzinfo	51 photograghs
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	0-8135-5245-1 / 0813552451
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-5245-3 / 9780813552453
Zustand	Neuware