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A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, exploring her star persona and legacy. Nandana Bose argues that Dixit represented a wholesome and traditional figure of femininity that resonated across class and cultural hierarchies at a time of great economic and social change in India.

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Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penlope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today. Focusing on Cruz's key films and their surrounding discourse, Ann Davies charts the development of Cruz's star persona both at home and abroad and the questions, difficulties and pleasures it inspires.

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Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and 60s;