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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... Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power Part II 4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity 5. Television's Construction of the Celebrity 6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of ...
... Popular culture still has the dimensions of popular music, television, and film, but these practices and experiences have been dramatically refracted through online culture, which has accelerated our access to celebrity culture. We can ...
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. contemporary world, the instantaneity of celebrity images and the ubiquity of our “search” culture mean that celebrities ... popular music, and film. We have become a culture that accepts what I ...
... celebrity culture. For some authors, Lord Byron represents a new form of celebrity literary star filled with an individualized pathos that became the model for future popular music icons. For others, the model is the complete personal ...
... celebrity studies is the study of the film star. Academic book-length studies of individual stars in film and popular music have advanced over the past fifteen years and are often collected in series. Studies of stardom have included ...
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 | |