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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... Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power Part II 4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity 5. Television's Construction of the Celebrity 6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The ...
... analysis of the contemporary, bridging the separate spheres of popular culture and political culture with clear continuities and connections. The book played on this bizarre dual dialectic of celebrity: celebrity represented the ...
... analysis emerged from critical journalism and popular books, but much came from academic research. There has been a ... analyses and critical investigations around celebrity have emerged from academics and cultural critics and then, from ...
... analysis in celebrity studies. This historical research made its own interdisciplinary intersections in chapters about Sarah Bernhardt and her embodied patriotism by Kenneth Silver; the reception of the play Cyrano de Bergerac in fin de ...
... analysis of American Idol similarly explores how public personalities are framed and situated for attraction and audiences in a highly constructed way. Beyond studies of the campaigning and publicity machines of political leaders ...
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 | |