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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... leadership and vision, charisma is a kind of power that is not totally dissectable. According to Potts, charisma is authentic in its ineffability; where celebrity can be manufactured and produced, whether by the ancient king Alexander ...
... leaders and entertainment celebrities. The study of how publicity, media relations, and public relations operate in entertainment industries and in politics has expanded considerably since the first publication of Celebrity and Power ...
... leader. He was the master of what Douglas Kellner calls the “media spectacle,” which helped contribute to Obama's political success in 2008 and 2012. His aura as a political celebrity can also have negative consequences, as when he is ...
... . Our political systems similarly are twinned with representational media: the form of representation in contemporary democratic politics depends on media that help simplify debate and highlight key leaders to represent issues,
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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 | |