Reluctant Celebrity

Lorraine York, Distinguished Professor at Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction: “Treasonous Drift: Celebrity Reluctance as Privilege”.- 2. Inviting the Shadow to the Party: John Cusack and the Politics of Reluctance.- 3. Robert De Niro’s (In)articulate Reluctance.- 4. “I’m Not Going to Be the Poster Boy for This. Although I am the Poster Boy”: Daniel Craig’s Reluctant Bonding.- 5. Conclusion: Reluctance’s Other.