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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... embodied in the late nineteenth century as signaling the true movement of individuals into a public–private form of publicity of the self. Since 1997, detailed work has advanced on the origins of the intensification and interest in ...
... embodied the colonial expansionist rhetoric and desires in their beings and public personalities and operated as famed individuals in the late nineteenth century. Giloi's chapter, which discusses the connection between German royalty ...
... of this transforming public world that could embody its new directions. These layers of development lead Inglis to the twentieth-century culture in which celebrities become experts via support industries in the relationship.
... embody audiences and in that way provide pathways for the articulation of power and influence both by cultural industries and by comparison and adaptation to political institutions. What is interesting to see since its first publication ...
... embody the citizenry of a country. John Street's work is perhaps the most sophisticated as it both advances what I had developed and integrates other key writing in the area. Drawing from the work of West and Orman and their Celebrity ...
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 | |