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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... discourse about the dimensions of what is public and what is private and, ultimately, what is intimate. The level of exposure—the capacity of our technologies to record and to transmit images, text, and sound—and an online culture that ...
... discourse defines their practices as modernism. Partially because of this focus on literary celebrity, in 2001 the highly respected journal Minnesota Review published a special issue on “academostars,” intellectuals who were in some ...
... discourse. Early work from Russell Jacoby and Bruce Robbins led to extensive research on public intellectuals as a subset of literary and media celebrities, with Atherton's work and interviews of key public intellectuals such as Noam ...
... discourse of the infamous and how the boundaries of crime present a remarkable pull on the collective imagination. Ruth Penfold-Mounce has widened this research through her analysis of celebrity and criminality, where the notion of ...
... discourse on fame (her debut album was titled The Fame) resembles 1980s and 1990s studies of Madonna in its articulation of flamboyant difference and connection. Drawing from quite different sources, L. van Zoonen's celebrity-inflected ...
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 | |