Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary CultureSimultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public’s desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the explosion of instant access to celebrity culture, bringing famous people and their admirers closer than ever before. |
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... Weber, into wider use in politics and sociology by the twentieth century. Only some elements of the term charisma carry through time. Potts identifies that the original meaning of charisma is “gift,” and in some senses that idea of a ...
... Weber's analysis of Britney Spears brings to light the way that gender permits quite different public discourses of the self. This difference along gender lines was the motivation behind Su Holmes and Diane Negra's historically and ...
... Weber in The Created Self. Weber explains that the created self is the new normal experience of everyday contemporary life: “What is different now is the deliberate, intentional creation of self in the absence of a single overarching ...
... Weber conceives of the self in a constant state of either contraction or expansion. He employs the idea of the “projective empathy” of the self that best describes our current condition of a widespread reaching for the status of a ...
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Contents
Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individual | |
The Mob the Crowd | |
Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form | |
The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction | |
Televisions Construction of the Celebrity | |
The System of Celebrity | |
The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture | |
Forms of PowerForms of Public Subjectivity | |
PoliticalPopular Culture | |
Index | |