The Celebrity Monarch

Author : Olivia Gruber Florek
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644532874

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The Celebrity Monarch by Olivia Gruber Florek Pdf

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians have never considered Elisabeth’s role in producing her public portraiture or the influence of her creation. The Celebrity Monarch reveals how portraits of Elisabeth transformed monarchs from divinely appointed sovereigns to public personalities whose daily lives were consumed by spectators. With resources ranging from the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Elisabeth’s private collection of celebrity photography to twenty-first century collages and films by T. J. Wilcox, this book positions Elisabeth herself as the primary engineer of her public image and argues for the widespread influence of her construction on both modern art and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity.

Author : Mary Luckhurst,Jane Moody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230523845

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Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 by Mary Luckhurst,Jane Moody Pdf

Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction and production of celebrity in the British theatre. These exciting essays explore aspects of fame, notoriety and transgression in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane. This pioneering volume examines the ingenious ways in which these stars have negotiated their own fame. The essays also analyze the complex relationships between discourses of celebrity and questions of gender, spectatorship and the operation of cultural markets.

Author : P. David Marshall,Sean Redmond
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118475010

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A Companion to Celebrity by P. David Marshall,Sean Redmond Pdf

Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies. Offers a detailed, systematic, and clear presentation of all aspects of celebrity studies, with a structure that carefully build its enquiry Draws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity analyses Presents new and provocative ways of exploring celebrity’s meanings and textures Considers the revolutionary ways in which new social media have impacted on the production and consumption of celebrity

Author : Márta Minier,Maddalena Pennacchia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317185567

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Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic by Márta Minier,Maddalena Pennacchia Pdf

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of 'source texts' and the convergence of different media in this genre, alongside the concurrent issues of fidelity and authenticity that accompany this form. The contributors focus on big and small screen biopics of British celebrities from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, attending to their myth-making and myth-breaking potential. Related topics are the contemporary British biopic's participation in the production and consumption of celebrated lives, and the biopic's generic fluidity and hybridity as evidenced in its relationship to such forms as the bio-docudrama. Offering case studies of film biographies of literary and cultural icons, including Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Diana Princess of Wales, John Lennon, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Beau Brummel, Carrington and Beatrix Potter, the essays address how British identity and heritage are interrogated in the (re)telling and showing of these lives, and how the reimagining of famous lives for the screen is influenced by recent processes of manufacturing celebrity.

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781861895578

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Celebrity by Chris Rojek Pdf

In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a common reference point. But how have people like Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bill Clinton or Princess Diana impressed themselves so powerfully on the public mind? Do they have unique qualities, or have their images been constructed by the media? And what of the dark side of celebrity – why is the hunger to be in the public eye so great that people are prepared to go to any lengths to achieve it, as numerous mass murderers and serial killers have done. Chris Rojek brings together celebrated figures from the arts, sports, politics and other public spheres, from O.J. Simpson and Marilyn Monroe to Hitler and David Bowie, and touches on many movements and fads, including punk, rock-and-roll and fashion. Rojek analyzes the difference between ascribed celebrity, which derives from bloodline, and achieved celebrity, which follows on from personal achievement - the difference between Princess Margaret and, say, Woody Allen. He also shows how there is no parallel in history to today's ubiquitous "living" form of celebrity, powered by newspapers, PR departments, magazines and electronic mass media.

Author : Lawrence M Friedman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781538178836

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Law, Science, and Technology by Lawrence M Friedman Pdf

Through a series of historical analyses, Friedman explores the relationship between the legal system and the development of modern science and technology. The scientific revolution produced major changes in culture; and these in turn led to changes in government and law. The book covers, among other topics, the transportation revolution; the camera and the entertainment industry; the "germ theory" and its influence on modern society; and the role of culture and technology in the sexual revolution.

Author : Jennifer Brubaker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498579735

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Celebrity and the American Political Process by Jennifer Brubaker Pdf

Integrated Marketing Communication: Celebrity and the American Political Process uses an integrated marketing communication perspective to examine the brand of the celebrity as it is brought into the American political system, primarily in the form of celebrity endorsements and branding, as candidates, causes, and movements use celebrities as a strategy to reach voters. Jennifer Brubaker posits that while the relationship between celebrities and political issues is hardly new, it has evolved into a significant connection—in the past, it was a novelty to see a politically active celebrity; today, it’s becoming an expectation related to fame. Using integrated marketing communication and persuasion theory, Brubaker argues that establishing candidates’ brand identity is a critical factor in determining whether they win or lose an election, and celebrity-politics relationships are a central tool in building a candidates’ brand identity. Scholars of political science, communication, marketing, and history will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Maura E. Hametz,Heidi Schlipphacke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501313455

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Sissi’s World by Maura E. Hametz,Heidi Schlipphacke Pdf

Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

Author : Mark Dooley,Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472917119

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Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley,Roger Scruton Pdf

This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook. It tells of Scruton's rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on his campaign on behalf of underground dissidents in Eastern Europe. Ranging across topics as diverse as the current state of British philosophy, music, religion, and illuminating what lay behind Scruton's abandonment of academia for his new life on a Wiltshire farm, Conversations with Roger Scruton is an intimate portrait of a writer who has felt philosophy as a vocation and whose defence of unfashionable causes has brought him a wide readership in Britain and around the world.

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849660716

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Fame Attack by Chris Rojek Pdf

The follow up to the hugely successful 'Celebrity', this is an analysis of what celebrity culture is today. In 2001, the phenomenon of Jade Goody and reality TV shows was in its infancy. Now, Rojek explores celebrity engineering, technologies of fame creation and issues of loneliness and uncertainty. It is set to become the benchmark in the field.

Author : Lisa Idzikowski
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534505209

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Celebrities in Politics by Lisa Idzikowski Pdf

From campaigning for politicians, to speaking out on political issues, to running for public office, celebrities around the world have long played an active role in politics. Their presence in the public sphere often helps them make this leap, but is the fact that we recognize their names and faces enough to make them trustworthy political figures? The diverse viewpoints in this volume explore what role celebrities should play in politics, discuss the phenomenon of making the transition from celebrity to politician, and investigate the place of contemporary media culture in this pattern.

Author : Lord William Pitt Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Biography
ISBN : NYPL:33433061843730

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Celebrities I Have Known by Lord William Pitt Lennox Pdf

Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752470894

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Monarchy: The History of an Idea by Brenda Ralph Lewis Pdf

Brenda Ralph Lewis presents an informative overview of how kings and queens came about and of the many forces that have shaped the identity of monarchy and in many cases caused its downfall.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595300259

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Everyone Is An Artist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monica M. Dalide
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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683 Things About New Orleans by Monica M. Dalide Pdf

With its colorful past, outsized personalities and tragic history of natural disasters, New Orleans is a city like no other. Now, Monica M. Dalide gives us 683 reasons the birthplace of Jazz has been called "the most unique city in America." Presented in a series of bite-sized trivia nuggets, 683 Things About New Orleans amuses, surprises and shocks with the juiciest bits culled from the city’s history books and diverse cultural milieu. Divided into 22 sections covering everything from sports to slave revolts (and, of course, Mardi Gras), 683 Things About New Orleans is the ultimate insider's bible-a field guide to the city's special quirks, only-in-New Orleans traditions and betcha-didn't-know past-that's sure to appeal to the native, the traveler and the former resident alike. But most of all, it's a reminder of just what makes this city so great.