Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot r

In the last 50 years, the social importance of stars has steadily grown, to the point that stars have now become key role models who strongly influence people�

Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave's Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive