Gods like us: on movie stardom and modern fame

The faces in the mirror

The star is born : from Edison's blobs to Florence Lawrence

The first goddesses : Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, flappers, and virgins

The matinee idols : Charlie, Doug, Rudy, and more

Sodom : the silent star scandals

Judgment Day : the movies speak

The stars who talked : the great singularities of the studio era

The factory : how stars were made

Monsters, scarlett women, and other characters

The afternoon shift : postwar studio stardom

Barbarians at the gates : Brando changes everything

The new machine : small screen, small gods

Vinyl : the new rock celebrities and the Warhol factory

Free at last : the long voyage of the African American star

Dig in the new breed : mensches, hippies, and fame in new Hollywood

The glamour backlash : the 1980s

Machines and macho men : cable, VHS, and Arnold rewrite the rules

The kids are all right : brat packers and the new teen idols

MTV and its discontents : Michael Jackson, Madonna, and the rise of the meta-star

The corporate star : the 1990s and beyond

Pixel personal : stardom in the Internet age

Star death.