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. |
From inside the book
... production or online news and increasingly printrelated news as well. Political reports have become less distinguishable from reports about celebrities. Major political figures such as former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd (whose ...
... production of the public self are discussed in their protean forms. On one level, this research on fame in the nineteenth century articulates what Braudy describes as the first century of mass culture, and what we are seeing through the ...
... production of fame is Cooper Lawrence, who has developed a career as an expert commentator and journalist on fame and celebrity with a psychological approach buttressing her own claim to authority. Her book The Cult of Celebrity ...
... production. In more contemporary-focused scholarship, Annik Dubied has been instrumental in developing research on the content of people-oriented journalism—celebrity journalism— particularly in Europe: two major special issues in key ...
... production of the self as fundamental to contemporary life. Theresa Senft's book on Camgirls explicitly explores the essential work that publicizing the self has become in the contemporary moment. Zizi Papacharissi's edited book A ...
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 | |