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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Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. Contents. Acknowledgments Introduction. Celebrity in the Digital Era ... Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture Notes.
... Celebrity and Power in their own work, as well as the many media interviewers to whom I passed on my critical interpretation of celebrity culture and the emerging pandemic of persona culture. Your research and the new community of celebrity ...
... celebrity culture and that something in the constitution of the hyperindividual of contemporary culture articulated formations of power. Its tentativeness is in its analysis of the contemporary, bridging the separate spheres of popular ...
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. contemporary world, the instantaneity of celebrity images and the ubiquity of our “search” culture mean that celebrities inhabit a social space closer to us than ever before. We can move ...
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. We have become a culture that accepts what I call a new public intimacy. Celebrity is a very public form of discourse about the dimensions of what is public and what is private and ...
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 | |