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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... stardom that had emerged predominantly in the 1970s and 1980s and were partly motivated by prominent objects of study. When Diana, former Princess of Wales, perished in a Parisian tunnel ostensibly chased by paparazzi in August 1997, a ...
... stardom and the White House has been documented in a journalistic book by Alan Schroeder that does not fully address the full implication of celebrity activism. Street's thesis, that celebrity intervention can shift political debate ...
... stardom have included gender-related approaches such as Diane Negra's volume on ethnic female stardom (particularly in film) and the intricate research of television presenters by Frances Bonner. Augmenting the study of television stardom ...
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. the meaning of television stardom and celebrity informed not only by the transformations in reality television but also the constitution of familiarity and revelation that has been part of ...
... Stardom. London: Vision, 1999. Fairchild, Charles. “Building the Authentic Celebrity: The Idol Phenomenon in the Attention Economy.” Popular Music and Society 30, no. 3 (2007): 355–75. Fairclough, Kirsty. “Fame Is a Losing Game ...
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 | |