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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... represented the ephemera—the least-valued—and also represented the clustering of significance in the entertainment industry, and by implication other realms, in its expression of individuality. Since then the public sphere has been ...
... represents the extreme of malleable boundaries of public and private that are consciously explored via the more widely acceptable celebrity culture. Thus, we see a certain relentless exposure of individuals: Britney Spears without ...
... represent an active site for the exploration of a wide spectrum of cultural politics. Sport Emerging from leisure studies and the sociology of sport and its intersection with media and communication, a growing research trend addresses ...
... represent is instrumental in understanding how celebrity as a formation of contemporary individuality has migrated out of entertainment culture into a wider political culture. Our political systems similarly are twinned with ...
... represent issues, parties, and alliances in an embodied way. In many ways, the representational cultural regime reached its zenith via television and its moving-image broadcasting model in the 1980s. Very large sections of many ...
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 | |