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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... York to make conspicuous consumption, acquisition, and presentation of the self overcome the old-world, class-based hierarchies and allow further definitions of a celebritized public self. Inglis's broad-brush account of this history ...
... York, and Washington, D.C., in its approach to understanding the power of celebrity. Since then, culturally specific research on celebrity, particularly that based on nation-states and language groups, has grown. The dimension of this ...
... York's work as well as by Samita Nandy's investigation of the popular and iconic structure of fame in contemporary Canada. Media In some ways, the originary home of celebrity studies is the study of the film star. Academic book-length ...
... York: Peter Lang, 2010. Baert, Patrick, and Barbara Misztal. “Introduction: A Special Issue on Public Intellectuals.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 25, no. 4 (2012): 91–93. Barbour, Kim, and P. David Marshall ...
... York: Routledge, 2011. Braudy, Leo. “Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture.” In Berenson and Giloi, Constructing Charisma, 165–82. Brockington, Dan. Celebrity and the Environment: Fame ...
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 | |