Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the essays in this collection explore how the plasticity of stars helps disparate peoples manage the shifting ideologies of a transnational world.

Grace An, Oberlin College, USA
Mary Beltran, University of Texas at Austin, USA
María Elena Cepeda, Williams College, USA
Corey Creekmur, University of Iowa, USA
Liz Czach, University of Alberta, Canada
Lisa Funnell, University of Oklahoma, USA
Mark Gallagher, University of Nottingham, UK
Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon, USA
Charlie Henniker, Director/Producer, UK
Miguel Fernández Labayen, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Sreya Mitra, Independent Scholar, USA
Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Lauren Steimer, University of South Carolina, USA

Introduction; Russell Meeuf PART I: DISCUSSING TRANSNATIONAL STARDOM Panel Discussion Moderator: Raphael Raphael Participants: Mary Beltran Corey Creekmur Sangita Gopal PART II: CASE STUDIES Section A: Hollywood Stars, Transnational Contexts 1. John Wayne's Japan: International Production, Global Trade, and John Wayne's Diplomacy in The Barbarian and the Geisha; Russell Meeuf 2. Hanoi Jane Française: Transnational in Timel; Grace An Section B: Gender and Mobile 'European' Identities: 60s and 70s Francophone Stars 3. Alain Delon, International Man of Mystery; Mark Gallagher 4. The Transnational Career of Geneviève Bujold; Liz Czach Section C: Kinetic Bodies, Labor, and the Action Cinema 5. Hong Kong's It/Ip Man: The Chinese Contexts of Donnie Yen's Transnational Stardom; Lisa Funnell 6. Tony Jaa: Hong Kong Action Cinema as Mode in Thai Action Stardom; Lauren Steimer Section D: Transnational Film Stars, Transnational Media 7. (Almost) Everybody Loves Javier Bardem...'For he is a Good Actor': Critical Reception in the Spanish and US Media; Miguel Fernández Labayen & Vicente Rodríguez Ortega 8. From Heroine to 'Brand Shilpa': Reality Television, Transnational Cultural Economics and the Remaking of the Bollywood Star; Sreya Mitra 9. Pink Rupees or Gay Icons? Accounting for the Camp Appropriation of Male Bollywood Stars; Charlie Henniker Section E: Popular Music Stars and Transnational Identities 10. Shakira as the Idealized, Transnational Citizen: A Case Study of Colombianidad in Transition; María Elena Cepeda 11. Michael Jackson: Crisis, Resistance, and International Freakdom; Raphael Raphael