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
... public sphere has been 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 ...
... public sphere played with the scandalous directions that Oscar Wilde embodied in the late nineteenth century as signaling the true movement of individuals into a public–private form of publicity of the self. Since 1997, detailed work ...
... public sphere by Jarmil Dakhlia. Marc Lits's research has explored the movement of celebrity discourse from the realm of entertainment into politics, and Dubied's own investigations advance what constitutes celebrity news and her ...
... public sphere that is often hijacked in its representation of issues, in its hierarchizing of value, and in its skewed concentration of time on individuals who are literally undeserving. Along with Turner's rereading of a public sphere ...
... Public Sphere. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Jacoby, Russell. The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. New York: Basic Books, 1987. Jaffe, Aaron. Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity. New York ...
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 | |