Celebrity

ISBN-13: 9780415527446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 332 str.

Sean Redmond

Opis

Celebrity: Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies will introduce students to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity. There is an imagined relational trajectory that the book intends to navigate. While each chapter will stand as a coherent block of knowledge, analysis and appreciation, conversations and connections will also be foregrounded, and 'echo' summaries will enable the reader to follow the connections in the arguments that are made. The book builds a critical story about celebrity that takes in image production, branding and marketing, the political economy of celebrity, celebrity in the everyday, identity politics, structures of feeling and narratives of damage, and celebrity in relation to resistant strategies and energies. Topical, current and popular examples will be utilised to bring the material alive for the reader.

Spis treści

Chapter One: The Key Idea: Two Celebrity Circuits Beat as One Chapter Two: Celebrity Representations  Chapter Three: More than Just a Feeling: Celebrity Affects Chapter Four: (Post) Modern Identities and Celebrity Selfhood Chapter Five: Celebrity Embodiment Chapter Six: The Liquid Lights of Celebrity Productions Chapter Seven: Celebrity Texturality Chapter Eight: Impressionable Audiences: Consuming Celebrity Culture  Chapter Nine: Celebrity Agency Chapter Ten: Celebrity Regulation in Body and Space Chapter Eleven: Celebrity Disruption Conclusion

O autorze

Sean Redmond is Professor in Screen and Design at Deakin University, Australia. He convenes the Melbourne-based Eye Tracking and the Moving Image Research Group, and the Science Fiction Research Group at Deakin University. He has published numerous books on celebrity, including A Companion to Celebrity (2015), Celebrity and the Media (2014), and Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (2006). With Su Holmes, he edits the journal Celebrity Studies, short-listed by The Association of Learned Professional Society Publishers for best new academic journal in 2011.