Essays In Celebrity Culture

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785277870

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Essays in Celebrity Culture by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

The collection of essays in the book moves from the largest domain of celebrity culture in India – Bollywood – through celebrity life writing and biopics and, finally, to the politics of and by celebrity culture. The book begins with an exploration of films made around celebrity victims to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Bollywood stars’ philanthropic and humanitarian work and, finally, to celebrity charisma and its role in the current era of ‘post-truth.’ Two studies of celebrity biopics and auto/biographies – from sports stars to Bollywood stars – and their disease memoirs are included. Finally, a section of essays are devoted to celebrity cultural politics, including Indian writing as a celebrity, the Narmada River as a celebrity, the desacralization of celebrity statues, Arundhati Roy’s celebrated and celebrity activism and the self-fashioning of Indian authors in the age of digital culture.

Author : Su Holmes,Sean Redmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135653712

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Framing Celebrity by Su Holmes,Sean Redmond Pdf

Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American ‘quality’ television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity 'reality' TV (I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d. lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer and narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections: Fame Now broadly examines the contemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as 'reality' TV and the internet) and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame. Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and ‘authenticity’. Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.

Author : Katja Lee,Lorraine York
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771122245

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Celebrity Cultures in Canada by Katja Lee,Lorraine York Pdf

Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address a variety of cultural venues—politics, sports, film, and literature—and examine the political, cultural, material, and affective conditions that shaped celebrity in Canada and its uses both at home and abroad. The scope of the book enables the authors to highlight the trends that characterize Canadian celebrity—such as transnationality and bureaucracy—and explore the regional, linguistic, administrative, and indigenous cultures and institutions that distinguish fame in Canada from fame elsewhere. In historicizing and theorizing Canada’s complicated cultures of celebrity, Celebrity Cultures in Canada rejects the argument that nations are irrelevant in today’s global celebrityscapes or that Canada lacks a credible or adequate system for producing, distributing, and consuming celebrity. Nation and national identities continue to matter—to celebrities, to fans, and to institutions and industries that manage and profit from celebrity systems—and Canada, this collection argues, has a vibrant, powerful, and often complicated and controversial relationship to fame.

Author : Noah Berlatsky
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0737772476

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Celebrity Culture by Noah Berlatsky Pdf

"Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--

Author : Karen Sternheimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317689683

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Celebrity Culture and the American Dream by Karen Sternheimer Pdf

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining the first edition’s examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present and expanding to include updated examples and additional discussion on the role of the internet and social media in today’s celebrity culture. Equally important, the book explains how and why the story of Hollywood celebrities matters, sociologically speaking, to an understanding of American society, to the changing nature of the American Dream, and to the relation between class and culture. This book is an ideal addition to courses on inequalities, celebrity culture, media, and cultural studies.

Author : Mkwelele Bertha (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228821045

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Media in the Celebrity Culture Sphere and Other Essays by Mkwelele Bertha (author) Pdf

Author : Roman Espejo
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0737752130

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Celebrity Culture by Roman Espejo Pdf

This volume explores the topics relating to celebrity culture by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise this issue.

Author : Martin Barker,Su Holmes,Sarah Ralph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134998500

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Celebrity Audiences by Martin Barker,Su Holmes,Sarah Ralph Pdf

The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new research which explores a range of audience encounters with celebrities, moving across social media, royal weddings, national identity to questions of age, gender and class. In doing so, the essays illuminate the complex and negotiated nature of audience investments in celebrity culture, collectively questioning the often simplistic and dismissive judgements that are made about audience/ celebrity relationships in this regard. The book provides a dedicated space to showcase a range of current work in the field, seeking to both consolidate and stimulate what is a vibrant and crucial aspect of studying celebrity culture.

Author : Tom Mole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521884778

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Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850 by Tom Mole Pdf

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how our modern idea of celebrity was created in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : Aaron Jaffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521843014

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Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity by Aaron Jaffe Pdf

In this 2005 book, Jaffe examines the interactions of modernist literary fame and celebrity culture in the early twentieth century.

Author : Anthea Taylor,Joanna McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429772986

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Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture by Anthea Taylor,Joanna McIntyre Pdf

This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields – actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities – and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australia’s colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption. This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies.

Author : Sharon Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210186

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The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus Pdf

Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable. Drawing on scrapbooks, personal diaries, and vintage fan mail, Marcus traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era's most innovative media and technologies: the popular press, commercial photography, and speedy new forms of travel. Whether you love celebrity culture or hate it, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times.

Author : Jennifer Adese,Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887559211

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Indigenous Celebrity by Jennifer Adese,Robert Alexander Innes Pdf

Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people’s entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of “Indigenous” and “celebrity” and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture’s impact on Indigenous people. Indigenous people who willingly engage with celebrity culture, or are drawn up into it, enter into a complex terrain of social relations informed by layered dimensions of colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, and classism. Yet this reductive framing of celebrity does not account for the ways that Indigenous people’s own worldviews inform Indigenous engagement with celebrity culture––or rather, popular social and cultural forms of recognition. Indigenous Celebrity reorients conversations on Indigenous celebrity towards understanding how Indigenous people draw from nation-specific processes of respect and recognition while at the same time navigating external assumptions and expectations. This collection examines the relationship of Indigenous people to the concept of celebrity in past, present, and ongoing contexts, identifying commonalities, tensions, and possibilities.

Author : Lee Barron
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473911369

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Celebrity Cultures by Lee Barron Pdf

What is celebrity? How do celebrities influence society? Why do we hang on their every word, tweet or status update? Celebrity Cultures offers a fresh insight into the field of celebrity studies by updating existing debates and exploring recent developments. From the PR campaigns of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, this book critically evaluates a number of diverse celebrity case-studies and considers what they reveal about contemporary global society. Taking into account issues such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, economics, politics and the media, the book draws upon a range of cultural theorists including Theodore Adorno and Jean Baudrillard. Over the course of ten richly illustrated chapters, the book: Draws upon sociology, cultural theory, media analysis and celebrity commentary to explore and re-evaluate the study of celebrity. Examines the international appeal of celebrity including examples from India, China, South Korea and Indonesia. Includes chapter introductions identifying key points and annotated further reading suggestions. Celebrity Cultures is an invaluable resource for students of celebrity, media and cultural studies.

Author : Sean Redmond,Su Holmes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446202388

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Stardom and Celebrity by Sean Redmond,Su Holmes Pdf

"Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity. Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding stardom and celebrity culture, this book is a worthwhile addition to any library." - Kerry Gough, Birmingham City University "Absolutely wonderful. The inclusion of seminal works and more recent works makes this a very valuable read." - Beschara Karam, University of South Africa "An engaging and often insightful book." - Media International Australia This book brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of stardom and celebrity studies, while crucially combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture. From Max Weber, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes to Catherine Lumby, Chris Rojek and Graeme Turner. At the core of the collection is a desire to map out a unique historical trajectory - both in terms of the development of fame, as well as the historical development of the field.