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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... magazines and television talk shows or even our need (often linked with teen culture, as developed in chapter 6) to plaster our bedroom walls with images of our icons. Augmenting this connection is that we can “follow” people, not in ...
... magazines and celebrity both in Joke Hermes's foundational research on readers of magazines and in Kim McNamara's valued contribution on the circulation of the paparazzi image and its control. Tabloidism has been a source of articles ...
... magazines that emerged from the early to mid-twentieth century. In terms of categories, celebrity news is often placed in “soft” news as opposed to the more political “hard” news, and it must be understood that these terms.
... magazines, and newspapers are media that have worked extensively and intensively on building their power of representation. I refer to these media forms as representational media. Representational media supports what I call a ...
... Magazine.” In Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture, edited by Su Holmes and Sean Redmond, 177–94. New York: Routledge, 2006. ———. “Reading Heat: The Meanings and Pleasures of Star Fashions and Celebrity Gossip ...
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 | |