Reluctant Celebrity: Affect and Privilege in Contemporary Stardom

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Treasonous Drift: Celebrity Reluctance as Privilege -- Theorizing Reluctant Celebrity: Reluctance vs. Reclusiveness, Modesty -- Reluctance: Etymology and Usage -- Reluctance: Methodological Questions and Scientific Analogies -- Reluctance Theorized as Affect -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Inviting the Shadow to the Party: John Cusack and the Politics of Reluctance -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Robert De Niro's (In)articulate Reluctance -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: "I'm Not Going to Be the Poster Boy for This. Although I am the Poster Boy": Daniel Craig's Reluctant Bonding -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Reluctance's "Other" -- Works Cited -- Index