Alain Delon

"Alain Delon: Style, Stardom, and Masculinity is a balanced act of reading the various aspects of this much controversial star. By reading Delon's roles as singer, style icon, director, producer, and screenwriter outside his roles in French films, the book increases significantly the available scholarship on Delon. ... The volume highlights the fact that Delon, appreciated or misunderstood, is a unique phenomenon in not only French but world cinema, and his continuing iconicity is one that deserves a thorough exploration even now." --Devapriya Sanyal, Celebrity Studies

"A bracing and wide-ranging set of essays on a vital French and international star celebrity. As these expert respondents consider Delon's career -- embodying culture, commerce and history -- they offer a richer understanding not only of this particular icon, but also the possibilities for star studies in general." --Tim Palmer, Professor of Film Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA, and author of Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema (2011) and Irreversible (2015)

"At last, the best-looking, most charismatic French actor of the post-war period gets the sustained attention he deserves. In Alain Delon, Style, Stardom and Masculinity, Nick Rees-Roberts and Darren Waldron have gathered a splendid collection of texts that illuminate the star in his multifarious dimensions: his roles and career choices, performance, looks, voice, fashion sense and sexual attractiveness. Drawing on insights from a range of international scholars, the book also importantly examines and celebrates his presence not just in famous classics such as Rocco and his Brothers, The Leopard and Mr Klein, but also in popular French cinema, especially the thrillers of Henri Verneuil, Jacques Deray and Jean-Pierre Melville, of which he was a pillar for decades. Fans and students alike will relish a book that explains and documents the enduring appeal of one of the great stars of French and world cinema." --Ginette Vincendeau, Professor of Film Studies, King's College London, UK