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.

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