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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... structure of the media. The hosts of the conference had extensively investigated celebrity and news from a variety of vantage points to work out discursive and narrative structures. The overall study of celebrity at the end of the first ...
... structure of celebrity became a way for the culture to investigate its own increasing technologies of surveillance, viewing, and exhibiting the self. Literary. Celebrity. Simultaneous to this reinterpretation of the public– private divide ...
... structure of public intellectuals as they play out in the world of the celebrated. What is interesting about this development in literary scholarship and the associated dimension of public intellectual discourse is that they coincided ...
Fame in Contemporary Culture P. David Marshall. “Structure. of. Feeling”. Historians, no doubt influenced by these developments in cultural studies as well as by intersections of their work with literary historical research, have expanded ...
... structure of feeling” (Raymond Williams), it is difficult to provide historical antecedents without documentation. The sense and sensibility of a particular era's relationship to the individuals who have achieved fame disappear and ...
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 | |