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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... formations of power. Its tentativeness is in its analysis of the contemporary, bridging the separate spheres of popular culture and political culture with clear continuities and connections. The book played on this bizarre dual ...
... formation of celebrity is John Potts's intriguing A History of Charisma. Potts works through the deployment of the term charisma as it appears originally in the Christian apostle Paul's letters and its continuities and discontinuities ...
... formation of 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 ...
... formation of celebrity is still dependent on key media industries such as television, and research on these media still forms a powerful dimension in study of the public personality. In a very real sense, the media traverses all the ...
... formation of contemporary individuality has migrated out of entertainment culture into a wider political culture. Our political systems similarly are twinned with representational media: the form of representation in contemporary ...
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 | |