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Book SynopsisThis work looks both at stars who attained worldwide fame through the Hollywood cinema, and those whose contribution is primarily to the national cinema. The essays and introductory discussion range over the whole history of British stardom from circa 1910 onwards.
Table of Contents1. Introduction - British Stars and Stardom
2. 'Our English Mary Pickford': Alma Taylor and ambivalent British stardom in the 1910s - Jon Burrows
3. The curious appeal of Ivor Novello - Lawrence Napper & Michael Williams
4. The extraordinary ordinariness of Gracie Fields: anatomy of a British star - Marcia Landy
5. Britain's greatest contirbution to the screen: Flora Robson and character acting - Andrew Higson
6. Dangerous limelight: Anton Walbook and seduction of the English - Andrew Moor
7. 'Queen of British Hearts': Margaret Lockwood revisted - Bruce Babington
8. James Mason: The man between - Peter Evans
9. The nun's story: femininity and Englishness in the films of Deborah Kerr - Celestino Deleyto
10. Trevor, not Leslie, Howard - Geoffrey MacNab
11. Sir Alec Guinness: the self-effacing star - Neil Sinyard
12. ‘Madness, madness’: the brief stardom of James Donald - Charles Barr
13. The trouble with sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell phenomenon - Pam Cook
14. 'The Angry Young Man is tired': Albert Finney and 1960s British cinema - Justine Ashby
15. Song, narrative, and the Mother's voice: A deepish reading of Julie Andrews - Bruce Babington
16. 'There's Something About Mary.....' - Julian Petley
17. Sean Connery: loosening his Bonds - Andrew Spicer
18. 'Bright particular stars': Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, and William Shakespeare - Richard Schoch
