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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... connection and understands me completely; my mother, Theo, who kept drawing me back to my ideas and work as being more essential than my role as a head of school or any other administrative post; and my children, Erin (who was around ...
... connection is that we can “follow” people, not in some vague fan sense of old where a collection of images from ... connected parts of our everyday existence. Celebrities are in effect closer to their audiences and have to reconstruct ...
... connection with voters, and much of online culture promotes the blending of these boundaries. The most evident changes in contemporary culture do not necessarily shift the meanings of celebrity culture but do show that it has ...
... connection through the public communication of elements of their lives. Writers such as Aaron Jaffe and Jonathan Goldman further explore how modernism is articulated through literary celebrity. Timothy W. Galow extends this research ...
... connection between German royalty and an audience of fans as autograph hunters, is prescient for later research on fan culture that is now a major area of analysis in celebrity studies. This historical research made its own ...
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 | |