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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... articulated formations of power. Its tentativeness is in its 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 ...
... articulated through literary celebrity. Timothy W. Galow extends this research into the practice of writing and its inflection via celebrity and self-promotion, where writers begin to play in the world of constructing public personas in ...
... self are discussed in their protean forms. On one level, this research on fame in the nineteenth century articulates what Braudy describes as the first century of mass culture, and what we are seeing through the lens of celebrity is.
... articulates the persistent power of celebrity and deserves further investigation, whether from the historical perspective or in defining with greater precision the affective connection generated by these associations between public ...
... articulation of power and influence both by cultural industries and by comparison and adaptation to political institutions. What is interesting to see since its first publication is the wealth of material that explores these dimensions ...
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 | |