Description: Exploring the body politics surrounding stars Melissa McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, Peter Dinklage, Danny Trejo, Betty White, and Laverne Cox, this book reveals how non-normative celebrity bodies address cultural anxieties about pressing social and political issues.
Brief description: Russell Meeuf is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho.
Review Quotes: "A highly engaging book that makes a smart and important contribution to star and celebrity studies, and to scholarship on twenty-first-century Hollywood and the cultural politics of identity."-- "Cinema Journal" (6/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)