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The Celebrity Culture Reader
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'The Celebrity Culture Reader' examines the proliferation of the study of celebrity over the last two decades, and the significance and importance of celebrity in contemporary culture.
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- Creator
- edited by P. David Marshall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 853 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415337922, 0415337917, 9780415337915, 0415337925
- OCLC
- ocm85828265
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 802-827) and index.
- 1. Celebrity and modernity : the historical pattern of celebrity -- Man as actor / Richard Sennett -- The longing of Alexander / Leo Braudy -- The sociology of charismatic authority the nature of charismatic authority and its routinization / Max Weber -- From hero to celebrity : the human pseudo-event / Daniel J. Boorstin -- The discourse on acting / Richard de Cordova -- The powerless 'elite' : theory and sociological research on the phenomenon of the stars / Francesco Alberoni -- The triumph of mass idols / Leo Lowenthal -- Stars as images / Richard Dyer -- 2. The textual and the extra-textual dimensions of the public persona -- Television's 'personality system' / John Langer -- The meanings of the popular music celebrity : the construction of distinctive authenticity / P. David Marshall -- Is straight the new queer? David Beckham and the dialectics of celebrity / Momin Rahman -- Articulating stardom / Barry King -- Feminine fascinations : a question of identification? / Jackie Stacey -- Australian idol and the attention economy / Charles Fairchild -- Reading gossip magazines : the imagined communities of 'gossip' and 'camp' / Joke Hermes -- 3. Ascribed celebrity : the transformed public sphere -- Intimately intertwined in the most public way : celebrity and journalism / The reign of hype : the contemporary (literary) star system / Joe Moran -- America's new son : Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism / C.L. Cole and David L. Andrews -- The celebrity politician : political style and popular culture / John Street -- Academostars : name recognition / Jeffrey J. Williams -- Celebrity and religion / Chris Rojek -- Phantasmagoric labor : the new economics of self-presentation / Ernest Sternberg
- 4. Transgression : scandal, notoriety and infamy -- Investigating the serial killer : the seeking of origins / Richard Tithecott -- (Don't) leave me alone : tabloid narrative and the Michael Jackson child-abuse scandal / Stephen Hinerman -- The quest for fame / David Giles -- Celebrity, the tabloid and the democratic public sphere / Graeme Turner -- The celebrity legacy of The Beatles / P. David Marshall -- Exemplary differences : mourning (and not mourning) a princess / Richard Johnson -- Vanishing point / Catharine Lumby -- 5. Narcissism, fandom and the will-to-celebrity -- I don't have a great body, but I play one on tv : the celebrity guide to fitness and weight loss in the United States / Elizabeth Arveda Kissling -- Beauty and the female body / Kathy Davis -- Is there a fan in the house? The affective sensibility of fandom / Lawrence Grossberg -- "I'll be here with you" : fans, fantasy and the figure of Elvis / The psychology of achieved celebrity / Chris Rojek -- "John, a 20-year-old Boston native with a great sense of humor" : on the spectacularization of the "self" and the incorporation of identity in the age of reality television / Alison Hearn -- New media -- new self : the changing power of celebrity / 6. The celebrity industry : the management of fame -- The private ownership of people / Kembrew McLeod -- Walter Winchell : stardom / Neal Gabler -- The negotiated celebration / Joshua Gamson -- Author(iz)ing the celebrity : engendering alternative identities / Rosemary Coombe -- Producing celebrity / Graeme Turner, Frances Bonner and P. David Marshall