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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... about the audiences cultivated by these relationships in the wider public world. Historicizing. Celebrity: From. Renown. to. Charisma. and. Documenting. the. “Structure of Feeling” Historians, no doubt influenced by these developments.
... Charisma, edited by Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi and perhaps inspired by the original historical work on fame's history by Leo Braudy, which deals with charisma, fame, and power in nineteenthcentury Europe. Berenson's work on imperial ...
... charisma,” where public intimacy makes the populace—the audience—simultaneously close to the object of their gaze and affection yet obviously so distant. This parasocial phenomenon dependent on forms of mediation and extension best ...
... Charisma. Potts works through the deployment of the term charisma as it appears originally in the Christian apostle Paul's letters and its continuities and discontinuities during the two millennia since then. He restricts his discussion ...
... charisma is a kind of power that is not totally dissectable. According to Potts, charisma is authentic in its ineffability; where celebrity can be manufactured and produced, whether by the ancient king Alexander (whose “The Great ...
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 | |