日本語版『増殖するペルソナ：映画スターダムの成立と日本近代』（名古屋大学出版会、2007年）の改訂英語版。This book analyzes the establishment and transformation of the transnational film star system and the formations of historically important film stars - Japanese and non-Japanese - and casts new light on Japanese modernity between the 1910s and 1930s. Examining several individual performers - particularly benshi narrators, Onoe Matsunosuke, Tachibana Teijiro, Kurishima Sumiko, Clara Bow, and Natsukawa Shizue - as well as certain aspects of different star systems that bolstered individual stardom, this study foregrounds the associations of contradictory, multivalent social factors that constituted modernity in Japan, such as industrialization, capitalism, colonialism, nationalism, and consumerism.