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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... industries in its building of affective 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, resulting in a constitution of value and a personification of value that demarcate a different configuration of order and structure. Place ... culture in which celebrities become experts via support industries in the relationship.
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. which celebrities become experts via support industries in the relationship between the technologies of exhibition and the audiences that they cultivate. Although there is an incompleteness ...
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. gap between reason and ... industries that have surrounded entertainers and politicians throughout the ... cultural industries and by comparison and adaptation to political institutions. What ...
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. describing the worlds of entertainment and politics and in seeing that these areas are indeed continuous in their constitution of popularity in popular culture as much as political culture ...
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 | |