Description
Book SynopsisExploring the body politics surrounding stars Melissa McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, Peter Dinklage, Danny Trejo, Betty White, and Laverne Cox, this book reveals how non-normative celebrity bodies address cultural anxieties about pressing social and political issues.
Trade Review"A highly engaging book that makes a smart and important contribution to star and celebrity studies, and to scholarship on twenty-first-century Hollywood and the cultural politics of identity." * Cinema Journal *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Star Bodies and the Politics of Inclusion
- 1. Melissa McCarthy: Class and Corpulence in the Obesity Epidemic Era
- 2. Gabourey Sidibe: Obesity and Postracial Femininity
- 3. Peter Dinklage: Meritocracy and the World’s Sexiest Dwarf
- 4. Danny Trejo: Latino Action Stardom and the Shifting Borders of Whiteness
- 5. Betty White: Bawdy Grandmas, Aging in America, and “Prefeminist” Fantasies
- 6. Conclusion: Laverne Cox, Trans Women, and the Limits of Neoliberal Citizenship
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
