Authored Book

Penélope Cruz

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Citation

Davies A (2014) Penélope Cruz. Film Stars. Basingstoke: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=493008

Abstract
Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penélope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today. Focusing on Cruz's key films and their surrounding discourse, Ann Davies explores how she is called upon to embody different ideas of youthfulness, nationality, exotic otherness, and the mature, established actress. Considering the contradictions of Cruz's star persona - between spontaneity and tightly controlled privacy, between hard work and passive beauty, and between Spain and Hollywood itself - this book charts the development of her career and the questions, difficulties and pleasures it inspires.

StatusPublished
Title of seriesFilm Stars
Publication date30/06/2014
PublisherBFI/Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher URLhttp://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=493008
Place of publicationBasingstoke
ISBN9781844574285

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People

Professor Ann Davies

Professor Ann Davies

Emeritus Professor, Spanish