Acknowledgements.- List of Illustrations.- Foreword by Sue Harris.- Introduction.- Section 1: Lasting Stardom.- 1. Aparna Sharma, ''From Angry Young Men to Brand Bachchan - Extra-cinematic Strategies that make India''s lasting Super-Star''.- 2. Antonella Palmieri, ''Sophia Loren and the Healing Power of Female Italian Ethnicity in Grumpier Old Men''.- 3. Gabor Gergely, ''Cutting a Dash in Interwar Hungry: The Enduring Stardom of P-J-r''.- 4. Julie Lobalzo Wright, ''From Boy N the Hood to Hollywood Mogul: Ice Cube''s Lasting Stardom in Contemporary Hollywood''.- Section 2: Faded Stardom.- 5. Lies Lanckman, ''The Queen''s Household: Norma Shearer, Stardom and Domesticity''.- 6. Gillian Kelly, ''Robert Taylor: The "Lost" Star With the Long Career''.- 7. Lucy Bolton, ''Melanie Griffith: Wild Child and Working Woman''.- Section 3: Ageing.- 8. Fiona Handyside, ''The Ageing Stars of European Art-House Cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emm