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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... emerged from critical journalism and popular books, but much came from academic research. There has been a flurry of intellectual work on celebrity and celebrity culture, partly as a result of the publication of this book. I will ...
... Studies Conference in December 2012 at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. An international group of scholars presented papers, and it was clear that a certain intellectual maturity had emerged, including recognition.
... emerged, including recognition of a historical body of work, a clear attempt to connect to intellectual traditions and approaches, and even subgroups of research directions. The conference was a salute to the establishment of the ...
... emergence of the Internet and its websites and blogs. From then on, the public–private demonstrative structure of celebrity became a way for the culture to investigate its own increasing technologies of surveillance, viewing, and ...
... emergence of celebrity culture. Writers on theater and performance have without doubt substantiated Inglis's claims to nineteenthcentury structure of feeling around celebrity, and the pioneering work that Luckhurst and Moody achieved in ...
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 | |