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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... specific research on celebrity, particularly that based on nation-states and language groups, has grown. The dimension of this scholarship is beyond my linguistic capacity, but numerous works have been translated or written in English ...
... specific areas of inquiry, a number of books have attempted to provide comprehensive overviews of celebrity in contemporary culture. Popular critical readings of celebrity culture appear with regularity. Worthy of further consideration ...
... specific issues and personalities. Many news anchors of national broadcasting systems became powerful celebrities, such as Walter Cronkite in the United States by the 1970s. What has become evident since the 1980s across many cultures ...
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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 | |