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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... attempt to attract our attention and our gaze as we increasingly allow these online and networked screens to be elemental and connected parts of our everyday existence. Celebrities are in effect closer to their audiences and have to ...
... attempt to connect to intellectual traditions and approaches, and even subgroups of research directions. The conference was a salute to the establishment of the academic journal Celebrity Studies, initiated by scholars Sean Redmond ...
... attempt to engage with celebrities (but generally avoid fully engaging in an effort to acknowledge their right to privacy). Her work reveals the social rituals and forms of deference in operation in these unusual situations. Redmond's ...
... attempts to tease out the play of sentiment and how it imbricates itself with individual experiences. His work ... attempted to integrate psychology (for instance, A. Evans and G. Wilson), David Giles's Illusion of Immortality best ...
... attempted to provide comprehensive overviews of celebrity in contemporary culture. Popular critical readings of celebrity culture appear with regularity. Worthy of further consideration is Jake Halpern's Fame Junkies, which in the end ...
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 | |