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Acting for America : movie stars of the 1980s / edited by Robert Eberwein. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010. - 295 p. : ill. - Star decades: American culture/American cinema .

Robert De Niro: star as actor auteur / Aaron Baker -- Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger: androgynous macho men / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek: country girls / William Brown -- Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise: rebellion and conformity / Michael DeAngelis -- Michael J. Fox and the Brat Pack: contrasting identities / Robert Eberwein -- Eddie Murphy: the rise and fall of the golden child / Krin Gabbard -- Sigourney Weaver : woman warrior, working girl / Chris Holmlund -- Harrison Ford: a well-tempered machismo / Adam Knee -- Sally FIeld and Goldie Hawn: feminism, post-feminism, and cactus flower politics / Christina Lane -- Meryl Streep: feminism and femininity in the era of backlash / Linda Mizejewski -- Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis: enforcers left and right / James Morrison -- Steve Martin and John Candy: penny wise and pound foolish / Jerry Mosher -- In the wings / Robert Eberwein. HKBU library

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ISBN: 9780813547596 0813547598 9780813547602 0813547601

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States

LC Class. No.: PN1998 / A188 2010