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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... identifies the celebrity era as roughly the past 250 years; his approach is through examples that are indexically significant at identifying the gestalt of a particular period and more intentionally describe the movement and “progress ...
... identifies that the original meaning of charisma is “gift,” and in some senses that idea of a gift translates between its secular deployment by Weber, its subsequent pervasive use in popular and political culture in the twentieth and ...
... identifies the fascination with fame that circulates through youth culture in particular. Apart from identifying a tendency toward narcissism in both stars and those who crave the spotlight, Lawrence notes that celebrities serve as ...
... identifies new directions beyond the textual analysis of celebrity while still working through the semiotic depth of any particular iconic image. Canadian celebrity and its literary culture have been given serious consideration in ...
... identifies the fraught and contentious public–private boundaries of celebrated individuals. The intersection with sport and celebrity figures in the work of Andrew Parker and also in K. McNamara's research on the paparazzi online ...
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 | |