Celebrity Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2016)

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The 'blond issue'

Editorial

Editorial
Introduction: the ‘blond issue’
Ginette Vincendeau
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 20 Jan 2016
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Because she’s worth it: the natural blonde from Grace Kelly to Nicole Kidman
Pam Cook
Pages: 6-20
Published online: 03 Nov 2015
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From Superwoman to Fake Blonde: the representation of blondness on the Brazilian big screen
Stephanie Dennison
Pages: 21-33
Published online: 02 Nov 2015
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Shooting ‘sublime blondes in tight dresses’: the paparazzi in fiction film and television from La dolce vita to Dirt
Aurore Fossard De Almeida
Pages: 34-44
Published online: 12 Nov 2015
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Betrayed by blondness: Jiřina Štěpničková between authenticity and excess – 1930–1945
Šárka Gmiterková
Pages: 45-57
Published online: 03 Nov 2015
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A different kind of blonde: Melina Mercouri in Stella (Michael Cacoyannis, 1955)
Olga Kourelou
Pages: 58-68
Published online: 07 Nov 2015
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The all-American golden boy: Robert Redford, blond hair and masculinity in Hollywood
Julie Lobalzo Wright
Pages: 69-82
Published online: 05 Nov 2015
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‘Detour coiffure’: Veronica Lake and her peekaboo hairstyle
Kulraj Phullar
Pages: 83-97
Published online: 13 Nov 2015
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And Bardot … became a blonde: hair, stardom and modernity in post-war France
Ginette Vincendeau
Pages: 98-112
Published online: 17 Nov 2015
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Forum

Editorial
Introduction: transgender celebrity, celebrity political endorsements, and the practice of celebrity public relations
Hannah Hamad
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 20 Jan 2016
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Keeping away from the Kardashians: celebrity worth and the re-masculinising of Caitlyn Jenner
Anita Brady
Pages: 115-118
Published online: 11 Jan 2016
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Celebrity political endorsements matter
Matthew D. Atkinson & Darin DeWitt
Pages: 119-121
Published online: 11 Jan 2016
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Cultivating celebrity through public relations
Paul Ziek
Pages: 122-124
Published online: 08 Jan 2016
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Book reviews

Book Review
Mussolini’s dream factory: film stardom in fascist Italy, by Stephen Gundle, New York, Berghahn Books, 2013, 336 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78-238244-7
Barry King
Pages: 125-131
Published online: 03 Nov 2015
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Celebrity capital: assessing the value of fame, by Barrie Gunter, London, Bloomsbury, 2014, 248 pp., £14.25 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-62-892773-3
Michael Rübsamen
Pages: 131-133
Published online: 09 Nov 2015
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Recycled stars: female film fandom in the age of television and video, by Mary R. Desjardins, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2015, 308 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-82-235802-2
Ellen Wright
Pages: 133-135
Published online: 05 Jan 2016
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