Television Personalities : Stardom and the Small Screen

ISBN-13: 9780415481885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str.

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Opis

Although acknowledged as part of a rise in celebrity culture, television's specific forms of stardom have until now remained largely under-theorised. This book examines how television personalities function as commodities & function ideologically, thus relating them to issues of class, national identity, sexuality, gender & social history.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures  Acknowledgements  Permissions  Introduction  Chapter 1. The television personality system  Part 1: ‘TV must train its own stars’: The invention of the television personality  Chapter 2. An ‘irreconcilable opposition’: Music hall, radio and the emergence of televisual skill  Chapter 3. ‘Too much glamour?’: Glamour, gender and ‘in-vision’ announcers  Part 2: ‘‘Oooh, I’m an entertainer ... it’s what I do’: Political economy, performance and pleasure  Chapter 4. ‘You don’t know anyone ... ’: The political economy of television fame  Chapter 5. The art of ‘being yourself’: Pleasure, meaning and achievement in performance  Part 3: The television personality system revisited: Ideology, multiplatform and DIY fame  Chapter 6. Just ‘an ordinary bloke’: National identity and ideology  Chapter 7. Get Internet famous! (Even if you’re nobody)’: Multiplatform fame and the television personality system in the digital era  Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Dr. James Bennett is Head of Area for Media, Information and Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK. His work focuses upon digital, interactive television and TV fame in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in Screen, Cinema Journal, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Convergence and Celebrity Studies Journal. He is co-editor of Film and Television after DVDs (with Tom Brown, 2008) and Television as Digital Media (with Niki Strange, forthcoming, 2011).