Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in AustraliaThe areas of publicity, public relations and promotions have been considered to be on the periphery of the media. Yet this revealing new book demonstrates that they form a fundamental component of the media industries, with the decline of hard news being accompanied by the rise of gossip and celebrity. In addition to making a substantial contribution to our understanding of the cultural function of celebrity, Fame Games outlines how the promotion industry has developed and how celebrity is produced, promoted, and traded within the Australian media. While their analysis will inform academic debates on media practice internationally, the authors have taken the unique step of investigating the workings of the Australian promotion industry from within. Interviews with over 20 publicists, promoters, agents, managers, and magazine editors have provided a wealth of information about the processes through which celebrity in Australia is produced. |
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Contents
Celebrity and the Media | 1 |
Flashpoints the everyday and junk journalism | 2 |
The meaning and significance of celebrity | 8 |
Media survey results | 16 |
Filling the gap in media research | 23 |
The Rise of Promotional Culture | 29 |
Public relations in Australia | 34 |
Promotion publicity and the celebrity | 43 |
Damage control | 100 |
Theres no such thing as bad publicity | 105 |
Accidental heroes | 110 |
Regulating the mad dogs | 114 |
Core Territory Celebrities and the Womens Magazines | 116 |
Womens magazines in Australia | 117 |
The enduring value of scandal | 124 |
The personal the new and the exclusive | 126 |
The normalisation of publicity | 55 |
Producing Celebrity | 60 |
The agent | 61 |
The manager | 69 |
The publicist | 79 |
The media feeding the media | 85 |
Australias Hollywood | 86 |
Public relations and value | 91 |
Managing the Media | 93 |
Product enhancement | 95 |
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Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia Graeme Turner,Frances Bonner,P. David Marshall No preview available - 2000 |
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