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PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS The Natureof Charismatic Domination - Max Weber The Work of Art in the Age ofMechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin The Culture Industry: Enlightenmentas Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer Myth Today - RolandBarthes "THAT-HAS-BEEN"; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement;Authentification - Roland Barthes The Ecstasy of Communication - JeanBaudrillard PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM ThePowerless Elite - Franceso Alberoni Theory and Sociological Research onthe Phenomenon of the Stars Stars - Richard Dyer Heavenly Bodies - RichardDyer Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John Ellis Re-examining Stardom -Christine Geraghty Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance From BeyondControl to In Control - Rebecca Williams Investigating Barrymore'sFeminist Agency/Authorship PART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OFSTARDOM AND CELEBRITY The Emergence of the Star System in America - RicharddeCordova The Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua Gamson Celebrity inTwentith-Century America 'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery' - Su HolmesCelebrities,'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life Celebrity and Religion- Chris Rojek The Dream of Acceptability - Leo Braudy PART FOUR: PRODUCINGFAME: 'BECAUSE I'M WORTH IT' The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme Turner SharonStone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. Epstein Who Owns Celebrity? Privacy,Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip DrakeCelebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo Littler Fromthe Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche OmmundsenUnderstanding Literary Celebrity PART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR ANDCELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONS The Face of Garbo - Roland Barthes The Whiteness ofStars - Sean Redmond Looking at Kate Winslet's Unruly White Body TheHollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Mary C. Beltran MediaConstructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's "Cross-over Butt" 'Ozzy Workedfor those Bleeping Doors with the Crosses on them' - Lisa Holderman TheOsbournes as Social Class Narrative Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, andPost-Cinematic Selves - Mary Flanagan PART SIX: CONSUMING FAME/BECOMINGFAMOUS: CELEBRITY AND ITS AUDIENCE With Stars in their Eyes - Jackie StaceyFemale Spectators and the Paradoxes of Consumption A Star is Dead: A Legendis Born - Yiman Wang Practicing Leslie Cheung's Posthumous Fandom Doing itFor Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame - Catherine Lumby MediaPower - Nick Couldry Some Hidden Dimensions