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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... Meaning of the Public Individual 2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience 3 ... Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity 7. The System of Celebrity ...
... meaning of Diana was a new understanding of the public– private divide. In reaction to Diana's death, celebrities decried with a new earnestness how the public via the media had crossed a line and invaded the realm of the.
... meaning of famous people are embodied by audiences. Research about celebrity and representations of the body such as B. R. Weber's analysis of Britney Spears brings to light the way that gender permits quite different public discourses ...
... meanings both in performance and in their “intimate” connection to fans via Twitter. A growing body of literature on Lady Gaga and her forms of self-reflexive performance and ... meaning of masculine sporting icons. Momin Rahman's article.
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. migration of meaning of masculine sporting icons. Momin Rahman's article on “queering” David Beckham helps explore these transforming meanings of sports stars. The field of sport 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 | |