Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering

by Rebecca Bell-Metereau

Examines how psychological and physical suffering, as portrayed on screen and experienced in personal lives, has affected the images, performances, and fortunes of stars from the 1940s to the present.

Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen or weathered in the form of scandal, heartbreak, disfiguration, or aging in an actor's real life. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814339395
• ISBN13: 9780814339398
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"