Letting the Old Ways Die: Gender and Characterisation in 'A Star Is Born'

The fourth rendition of one of Hollywood's most iconic titles, Bradley Cooper's film takes on the challenge of adapting an old story of love, fame and dysfunction to a twenty-first-century milieu. As Zoë Goodall argues, however, its attempts to balance fidelity to the story with contemporary gender norms ultimate have uneven results.

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