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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... Authenticity 7. The System of Celebrity Part III 8. The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture Conclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture Notes.
... authenticity and connection has become a standard criterion for political success. Indeed, a number of articles and book chapters have referred to the rise of Obama as an exemplary model of this different political playing field and ...
... authenticity are investigated with depth in Barry Smart's The Sport Star. Research on the significant influence of sports celebrity on contemporary media and sports has been extended in a number of ways, from the cultural economy of ...
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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 | |