Transnational Arab Stardom: Glamour, Performance and Politics 9781501393228, 1501393227

Transnational Arab Stardom: Glamour, Performance and Politics 9781501393228, 1501393227

Building on the work of star studies scholars, this collection provides contextual analyses of off-screen representation

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Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives 9781478023906

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab l

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Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom 9780748645480

Jet Li's career has crossed numerous cultural and geographic boundaries, from mainland China to Hong Kong, from Hol

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Isabelle Huppert: Stardom, Performance, Authorship 9781501348914, 9781501372438, 9781501348945, 9781501348938

Featuring an original interview with French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert, this collection remedies the absence of s

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Rebellious Bodies: Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics 9781477311820

Celebrity culture today teems with stars who challenge long-held ideas about a “normal” body. Plus-size and older actres

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Sessue Hayakawa : Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom [1 ed.] 9780822389828, 9780822339588

While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese milit

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Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives 1478019271, 9781478019275

In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in tra

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Cultural Production and Social Movements after the Arab Spring: Nationalism, Politics, and Transnational Identity 9780755634187, 9780755634217, 9780755634194

The so-called Arab Spring challenged conventional wisdom and certainties about the Arab world where its effects continue

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Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World 9781626373372

What drives economic policymaking and performance in the Arab states? Paul Rivlin finds that domestic and international

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Transnational Politics, Citizenship and Elections 9780429626784

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