Taking fame to market: on the pre-history and post-history of Hollywood stardom, by Barry King, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 256 pp., £132.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13-734427-4

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Sara Bakerman

Sara Bakerman is a PhD student in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Southern California, USA. Her current research interests include studio-era stardom, particularly in relation to female agency in the media industries; Jewish representation in classic television comedy; and the role of nostalgia and memory in contemporary American culture. Her article ‘Too Good for the Fan Rags: The Argument for Agency in the Stardom of Katharine Hepburn’ was published in Spectator in 2015.