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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... transformed. Popular culture still has the dimensions of popular music, television, and film, but these practices and experiences have been dramatically refracted through online culture, which has accelerated our access to celebrity ...
... transformed our use of magazines and television talk shows or even our need (often linked with teen culture, as developed in chapter 6) to plaster our bedroom walls with images of our icons. Augmenting this connection is that we can ...
... transformation of our systems of media into online culture. This will take us to a more generalizable understanding of the relationship between conceptions of the public and individual identity, and I will boldly (and perhaps with a new.
... of this transforming public world that could embody its new directions. These layers of development lead Inglis to the twentieth-century culture in which celebrities become experts via support industries in the relationship.
... transformed political culture. Thompson charts a number of types of scandals, from financial and power scandals to ubiquitous sex scandals, and provides one of the best analyses of the Clinton—Lewinsky scandal as well as the British ...
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 | |