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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... system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise ... Celebrity and power : fame in contemporary culture / P. David Marshall. — Includes bibliographical references and index.
... Distinctive Authenticity 7. The System of Celebrity Part III 8. The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture Conclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture ...
... culture do not necessarily shift the meanings of celebrity culture but do show that it has intensified and expanded. Not only is there more material about celebrities from more sources, but celebrity culture has been analyzed with ...
... Celebrity and Power with where the insights from this book have led me ... Celebrity and Power concentrated on how celebrities embodied their audiences; in chapter 8, I extended that concept of embodiment in order to understand how politics ...
... 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 and nations is a dispersion of representative culture by the media. The early ...
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 | |