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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... of our systems of media into online culture. This will take us to a more generalizable understanding of the relationship between conceptions of the public and individual identity, and I will boldly (and perhaps with a new.
... relationship of authors with their readers from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. An early development was Richard Salmon's article on the emergence of patterns of asking personal questions of major authors in interviews ...
... journal Minnesota Review published a special issue on “academostars,” intellectuals who were in some cases public intellectuals but also served as a hierarchy of personalities in relationship to their position in academic debates.
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. of personalities in relationship to their position in academic ... relationships in the wider public world. Historicizing. Celebrity: From. Renown. to. Charisma. and. Documenting. the. “ ...
... relationship to the individuals who have achieved fame disappear and reattach to other objects and other embodiments. Some writers have taken the mantle from Braudy's original work and at least endeavored to knead the nature of those ...
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 | |