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Stardom and celebrity : a reader / [edited by] Sean Redmond and Su Holmes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2007.Description: xiv, 375 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781412923217 (pbk.) :
  • 9781412923200 (hbk.) :
  • 9781412923217
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4 RED
LOC classification:
  • P96.C35
Contents:
PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS The Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max Weber The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer Myth Today - Roland Barthes THAT-HAS-BEEN; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland Barthes The Ecstasy of Communication - Jean Baudrillard PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM The Powerless Elite - Franceso Alberoni Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars Stars - Richard Dyer Heavenly Bodies - Richard Dyer Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John Ellis Re-examining Stardom - Christine Geraghty Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance From Beyond Control to In Control - Rebecca Williams Investigating Barrymore\'s Feminist Agency /Authorship PART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITY The Emergence of the Star System in America - Richard deCordova The Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua Gamson Celebrity in Twentith-Century America \'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery\' - Su Holmes Celebrities,\'Ordinary\' People, and This is Your Life Celebrity and Religion - Chris Rojek The Dream of Acceptability - Leo Braudy PART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: \'BECAUSE I\'M WORTH IT\' The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme Turner Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. Epstein Who Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip Drake Celebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo Littler From the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche Ommundsen Understanding Literary Celebrity PART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONS The Face of Garbo - Roland Barthes The Whiteness of Stars - Sean Redmond Looking at Kate Winslet\'s Unruly White Body The Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Media constructions of stardom and Jennifer Lopez\'s cross-over butt -- 24.\'Ozzy worked for those bleeping doors with crosses on them\': The Osbournes as social class narraitve. Lisa Holderman -- 25.Mobile identities, digital starts, and post-cinematic selves. Mary Flangan -- Section six: consuming fame/becoming famous? celebrity and its audience -- 26.With stars in their eyes: female spectators and the paradoxes of consumption -- 27.A star is dead: a legend is born: practicing Leslie Cheung\'s psothumous fandom. Catharine Lumby -- 29.Media power: some hidden dimensions. Nick Couldry.
Summary: 'Stardom and Celebrity' brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of star/celebrity studies, while combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 306.4 RED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 123629

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS The Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max Weber The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer Myth Today - Roland Barthes THAT-HAS-BEEN; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland Barthes The Ecstasy of Communication - Jean Baudrillard PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM The Powerless Elite - Franceso Alberoni Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars Stars - Richard Dyer Heavenly Bodies - Richard Dyer Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John Ellis Re-examining Stardom - Christine Geraghty Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance From Beyond Control to In Control - Rebecca Williams Investigating Barrymore\'s Feminist Agency /Authorship PART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITY The Emergence of the Star System in America - Richard deCordova The Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua Gamson Celebrity in Twentith-Century America \'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery\' - Su Holmes Celebrities,\'Ordinary\' People, and This is Your Life Celebrity and Religion - Chris Rojek The Dream of Acceptability - Leo Braudy PART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: \'BECAUSE I\'M WORTH IT\' The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme Turner Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. Epstein Who Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip Drake Celebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo Littler From the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche Ommundsen Understanding Literary Celebrity PART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONS The Face of Garbo - Roland Barthes The Whiteness of Stars - Sean Redmond Looking at Kate Winslet\'s Unruly White Body The Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Media constructions of stardom and Jennifer Lopez\'s cross-over butt -- 24.\'Ozzy worked for those bleeping doors with crosses on them\': The Osbournes as social class narraitve. Lisa Holderman -- 25.Mobile identities, digital starts, and post-cinematic selves. Mary Flangan -- Section six: consuming fame/becoming famous? celebrity and its audience -- 26.With stars in their eyes: female spectators and the paradoxes of consumption -- 27.A star is dead: a legend is born: practicing Leslie Cheung\'s psothumous fandom. Catharine Lumby -- 29.Media power: some hidden dimensions. Nick Couldry.

'Stardom and Celebrity' brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of star/celebrity studies, while combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture.

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