Book Review: Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society

Barbas, Samantha (2001) Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars and the Cult of Celebrity. New York: Macmillan .

Dyer, Richard (1998[1979]) Stars, 2nd edn. London: BFI .

Dyer, Richard (1986) Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society, 1st edn. London: Macmillan .

Feasey, Rebecca (2003) ‘Sharon Stone, Screen Diva: Stardom, Femininity & Cult Movie Fandom’, in Mark Jancovich , Antonio Lazaro Reboll , Julian Stringer and Andy Willis (eds) Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste, pp. 172–184. Manchester: Manchester University Press .

Huffer, Ian (2003) ‘What Interest Does a Fat Stallone Have for an Action Fan?’, in Martin Barker and Thomas Austin (eds) Contemporary Hollywood Stardom, pp. 155–166. London: Arnold .

Kapsis, Robert E. (1992) Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation. London: University of Chicago Press .

Klinger, Barbara (1994) Melodrama & Meaning: History, Culture and the Films of Douglas Sirk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Maland, Charles. J. (1989) Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Moseley, Rachel (2002) Growing Up with Audrey Hepburn. Manchester: Manchester University Press .

Stacey, Jackie (1994) Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship. London: Routledge .