TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beth Haralovich,Mary
AU  - Blasini,Gilberto M.
AU  - Donalson,Melvin
AU  - Everett,Anna
AU  - Fuchs,Cynthia
AU  - Haralovich,Mary Beth
AU  - Hollinger,Karen
AU  - Hoover,Tracey
AU  - Mask,Mia
AU  - McPherson,Tara
AU  - Miller,Toby
AU  - Palmer,R.Barton
AU  - Peberdy,Donna
AU  - Pomerance,Murray
AU  - Serna,Laura Isabel
AU  - Williams,Linda Ruth
TI  - Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s 
T2  - Star Decades: American Culture/American
SN  - 9780813552446
AV  - PN1998.2 .P75 2012
U1  - 791.430 280922 22
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Motion picture actors and actresses
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself was signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality. Such actors as Denzel Washington, Andy Garcia, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, and Antonio Banderas became bona fide movie stars who carried major films to amazing box-office success. Five of the decade's top ten films were opened by three women-Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, and Whoopi Goldberg. "Chick flick" entered the lexicon as Leonardo DiCaprio became the "King of the World," ushering in the cult of the mega celebrity. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise defined screen masculinity as stark contrasts between "the regular guy" and "the intense guy" while the roles of Michael Douglas exemplified the endangered "Average White Male." A fascinating composite portrait of 1990s Hollywood and its stars, this collection marks the changes to stardom and society at century's end
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813553252
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813553252
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813553252/original
ER  -