Pretty people movie stars of the 1990s (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Anna Everett -- Arnold Schwarzenegger: corporeal charisma / Linda Ruth Williams -- Jodie Foster: feminist hero? / Karen Hollinger -- Denzel Washington: a revisionist black masculinity / Melvin Donalson -- Julia Roberts: cultural phenomenon / R. Barton Palmer -- Leonardo DiCaprio: king of the "world" / Murray Pomerance -- Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, and Edward James Olmos: stardom, masculinity, and "Latinidades" / Laura Isabel Serna -- Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise: the box office and "true masculinity" / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Angela Bassett and Halle Berry: African American leading ladies / Mia Mask -- Michael Douglas: an ordinary man / Donna Peberdy -- Pierce Brosnan: licensed to sell / Tracey Hoover and Toby Miller -- Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves: Hollywood and the iconoclasts / Anna Everett
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, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality