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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Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. aspect—United States. 3. Celebrities—History—21st century. 4. Fame— Social aspects. 5. Popular culture—United States—History— 21st century. I. Title. E169.Z82M366 2014 306′.0973—dc23 ...
... Culture Preface to the Original Edition Part I 1. Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individual 2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience 3. Tools for the Analysis of the ... Popular Culture Notes.
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture Notes Index Acknowledgments Revisiting my previously published research has not been a.
... culture articulated 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 ...
... culture has been analyzed with greater depth over the past fifteen years. Some of that analysis emerged from critical journalism and popular books, but much came from academic research. There has been a flurry of intellectual work on ...
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 | |