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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... actor Beyoncé's life through Tumblr, a multimedia social networking website. Beyoncé is pictured in forty-five images that are highly constructed into apparent forms of public privacy while she drives, relaxes, parties, or even holds ...
... actor Jodie Foster, who has been under the spotlight of celebrity for most of her fifty years, lashed out at the assault to privacy in her 2013 Golden Globes acceptance speech for a Lifetime Cecil B. DeMille Achievement Award: I have a ...
... actor. Because of the intensity of the mediatized presentation of politicians over much of the past half century, the capacity to construct an image of authenticity and connection has become a standard criterion for political success ...
... Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2011. Lawrence, Cooper. The Cult of Celebrity: What Our Fascination with the Stars Reveals about Us. Guilford, Conn.: Skirt!, 2009. Lehman-Wilzig, S. N., and M. Seletzky ...
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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 | |