Overview

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.

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Author:   Su Holmes ,  Sean Redmond
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9780415377102

ISBN 10:   0415377102
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   19 May 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Understanding Celebrity Culture Section 1: Fame Now 1. Intimate Fame Everywhere 2. Its a Jungle Out There!: Playing the Game of Fame in Celebrity Reality TV 3. Bringing Out The * in You: SJP, Carrie Bradshaw and the Evolution of Television Stardom 4. I’m a Celebrity, Get Me into Politics: The Political Celebrity and the Celebrity Politician 5. Not Just Another ""Powerless Elite""? When Fans Become Subcultural Celebrities Section 2: Fame Body 6. Spectacular Male Bodies and Jazz Age Celebrity Culture 7. Seeing is Believing: Constructions of Stardom and the Gay Porn Star in U.S. Gay Video Pornography 8. Celebrity Skins: The Illicit Textuality of the Celebrity Nude Magazine 9. Get a Famous Body: Star Styles and Celebrity Gossip in heat Magazine 10. Droppin’ It Like Its Hot: The Sporting Body of Serena Williams Section 3: Fame Simulation 11. Glitter and Grain: Aura and Authenticity in the Celebrity Photographs of Juergen Teller 12. The Mockery of Cartoon Celebrity: The Simpsons and the Fragmented Individual 13. Spending Time with (a) Celebrity: Sam Taylor-Woods Video Portrait of David Beckham 14. ""I’m Jealous of the Fake Me"": Postmodern Subjectivity and Identity Construction in Boy Band Fiction 15. Langsters’ Online: kd lang and the Creation of Internet Fan Communities Section 4: Fame Damage 16. Idols of Destruction: Celebrity and the Serial Killer 17. Madly Famous: Narratives of Mental Illness in Celebrity Culture 18. Celebrity: The Killing Fields of Popular Music 19. ""Sometimes you Wanna Hate Celebrities"": Tabloid Readers and Celebrity Coverage. Bibliography"

Reviews

An exciting project, one that seeks to renew the field of star studies by enlarging its purview and bringing it into the present moment - Amy Villarejo, Cornell University, USA This important new book stakes out the breadth of current work on the attractions and obsessions of celebrity culture. Fame, power, adoration, idolization, gossip, madness, and death are all here. Framing Celebrity poses significant questions about the mediation of public identities and the popular figures who undeniably exert such influence in our lives - Dr Paul McDonald, Roehampton University, UK

""An exciting project, one that seeks to renew the field of star studies by enlarging its purview and bringing it into the present moment"" - Amy Villarejo, Cornell University, USA ""This important new book stakes out the breadth of current work on the attractions and obsessions of celebrity culture. Fame, power, adoration, idolization, gossip, madness, and death are all here. Framing Celebrity poses significant questions about the mediation of public identities and the popular figures who undeniably exert such influence in our lives"" - Dr Paul McDonald, Roehampton University, UK

Author Information

Dr Su Holmes is Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Kent, the author of British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s: Coming to a TV Near You! (2005) and co-editor of Understanding Reality Television (Routledge, 2004). Dr Sean Redmond is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand, the co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor (2003) and the editor of Liquid Metal: The reader in science fiction film (2004).

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