Pretty people : movie stars of the 1990s /

Pretty people : movie stars of the 1990s / edited by Anna Everett. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. - ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Star decades: American culture/American cinema . - Star decades: American culture/American cinema. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Anna Everett -- Arnold Schwarzenegger: corporeal charisma / Linda Ruth Williams -- Jodie Foster: feminist hero? / Karen Hollinger -- Denzel Washington: a revisionist black masculinity / Melvin Donalson -- Julia Roberts: cultural phenomenon / R. Barton Palmer -- Leonardo DiCaprio: king of the "world" / Murray Pomerance -- Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, and Edward James Olmos: stardom, masculinity, and "Latinidades" / Laura Isabel Serna -- Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise: the box office and "true masculinity" / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Angela Bassett and Halle Berry: African American leading ladies / Mia Mask -- Michael Douglas: an ordinary man / Donna Peberdy -- Pierce Brosnan: licensed to sell / Tracey Hoover and Toby Miller -- Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves: Hollywood and the iconoclasts / Anna Everett .

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Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
Actores y actrices de cine--Estados Unidos--Biografía.
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