...Debashree Mukherjee In 1939, at the height of her stardom, the actress Shanta Apte went on a spectacular hunger strike in protest against her employers at Prabhat Studios in Poona, India. The following year, Apte wrote a harsh polemic against the extractive nature of the film industry. In Jaau Mi...

... transmutable stardom across multiple temporal and media appearances, but also her authorial control over performance material and style. 13 Emily Carman complicates our histories of studio-era female stardom and creative autonomy by archiving stars’ achievements and struggles through employment contract...

...Lois Banner “‘The Mystery Woman of Hollywood’: Greta Garbo, Feminism, and Stardom” analyzes feminism as manifested in Greta Garbo's life and career. It focuses on her European background; the media discourse on her; feminism in her films and in the United States in the 1920s; and Garbo's rebellion...

... in the press of the period—ostensibly a prototype for the heroines pictured in these movies. In this article I will approach the topic of stardom and celebrity through a gendered lens by analyzing several American silent films made between 1913 and 1928 that specifically concern young women who journey...