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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... fan sense of old where a collection of images from printed sources might be made but via social media such as Twitter or Facebook. Updates on those people we are following are signaled on our mobile phones. In some ways our culture is ...
... 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 interdisciplinary intersections in chapters about Sarah Bernhardt ...
... fan subcultures. Jenkins advanced this research through his study of how fans interact in what he calls the participatory and convergent new media culture; work on celebrity culture has paralleled these efforts through close studies of fan ...
... fans via Twitter. A growing body of literature on Lady Gaga and her forms of self-reflexive performance and discourse on fame (her debut album was titled The Fame) resembles 1980s and 1990s studies of Madonna in its articulation of ...
... Fan Identification, and Social Media.” Popular Music and Society 36, no. 3 (2013): 360–79. Cole, C. L. and Andrews, D. “America's New Son? Tiger Woods and America's Multiculturalism.” In Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and ...
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 | |