<p>"In an informative new reference guide, P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond, together with over 20 international academic contributors, aim to cast (lime)light on the purpose and power of celebrity from the origins of fame to social media and reality television."<br />—<strong>Sarah Powell, <em>Reference Reviews,</em> Vol 30 No 8</strong> </p><p>"Written by scholars from a variety of disciplines, including political science, social history, film, literary and communication studies, <em>A Companion to Celebrity</em> is a comprehensive and contemporary reference guide for both students and the general reader seeking to make sense of the modern cultural obsession with celebrity."<br />—<strong>Sarah Powell, <em>Reference Reviews,</em> Vol 30 No 8</strong> </p>

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 enquiryDraws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity analysesPresents new and provocative ways of exploring celebrity’s meanings and texturesConsiders the revolutionary ways in which new social media have impacted on the production and consumption of celebrity 
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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.
List of Figures and Tables x Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xix 1 Introduction 1P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond Part One The Genealogy of Celebrity Introduction 15P. David Marshall 2 The Moral Concept of Celebrity: A Very Short History Told as a Sequence of Brief Lives 21Fred Inglis 3 Brand Names: A Brief History of Literary Celebrity 39Loren Glass 4 The Changing Face of Celebrity and the Emergence of Motion Picture Stardom 58Gaylyn Studlar Part Two The Publics of Celebrity Introduction 79Sean Redmond 5 Celebrity, Participation, and the Public 83Graeme Turner 6 Celebrity, Convergence, and the Fate of Media Institutions 98Nick Couldry 7 Barack Obama, Media Spectacle, and Celebrity Politics 114Douglas Kellner 8 Construction of the Public Memory of Celebrities: Celebrity Museums in Japan 135Saeko Ishita Part Three Celebrity Value Introduction 155P. David Marshall 9 Hope Springs Eternal? The Illusions and Disillusions of Political Celebrity 161Andrew Tolson 10 Winning Isn’t Everything. Selling Is: Sports, Advertising, and the Logic of the Market 177Ellis Cashmore 11 From Celebrity to Influencer: Tracing the Diffusion of Celebrity Value across the Data Stream 194Alison Hearn and Stephanie Schoenhoff Part Four Global Celebrity Introduction 213Sean Redmond 12 Recognition, Gratification, and Vulnerability: The Public and Private Selves of Local Celebrities 219Kerry O. Ferris 13 “Tweeting the Good Causes”: Social Networking and Celebrity Activism 235Liza Tsaliki 14 Celebrity Diplomats: Differentiation, Recognition, and Contestation 258Andrew F. Cooper 15 Brand Bollywood Care: Celebrity, Charity, and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism 273Pramod K. Nayar Part Five Celebrity Screens/Technologies of Celebrity Introduction 289P. David Marshall 16 Celevision: Mobilizations of the Television Screen 295Misha Kavka 17 Stardom, Celebrity, and the Moral Economy of Pretending 315Barry King 18 You May Know Me from YouTube: (Micro-)Celebrity in Social Media 333Alice E. Marwick Part Six Emotional Celebrity Introduction 351Sean Redmond 19 Frontierism: “The Frontier Thesis,” Affect, and the Category of Achieved Celebrity 355Chris Rojek 20 The Democratization of Celebrity: Mediatization, Promotion, and the Body 371Olivier Driessens 21 Sensing Celebrities 385Sean Redmond Part Seven Celebrity Embodiment Introduction 401Tamara Heaney and Sean Redmond 22 The Ambivalent Irishness of Denis Leary and Kathy Griffin 407Diane Negra 23 Neymar: Sport Celebrity and Performative Cultural Politics 421David L. Andrews, Victor B. Lopes, and Steven J. Jackson 24 Digital Shimmer: Popular Music and the Intimate Nexus between Fan and Star 440Toija Cinque Part Eight Celebrity Identification Introduction 457P. David Marshall 25 From Para-social toMultisocial Interaction: Theorizing Material/Digital Fandom and Celebrity 463Matt Hills 26 The Everyday Use of Celebrities 483Joke Hermes and Jaap Kooijman 27 Exposure: The Public Self Explored 497P. David Marshall Index 519
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In spite of roots stretching to ancient times, the study of celebrity is one of the fastest growing areas of contemporary academic scholarship. Contributing to this trend is how the new social media have taken celebrity/fan interaction to a level of engagement virtually unimaginable just a few years ago. 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. Featuring essays contributed from two dozen leading experts drawn from a range of disciplines and academic backgrounds, topics include the genealogy of celebrity, celebrity’s relationship with the public, the monetary value of celebrity, global celebrity, the screens and technologies of celebrity, celebrity’s emotional appeal, celebrity embodiment, and celebrity and fan interaction processes. Offering timely insights on everything from the cult of celebrity to our obsession with fame, Companion to Celebrity sheds important new light on our current understanding of an old and enduring phenomenon that is more ubiquitous in today’s world than at any other point in human history. 
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ISBN
9781118475010
Publisert
2015-12-04
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Wiley-Blackwell
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1179 gr
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252 mm
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168 mm
Dybde
33 mm
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P, UP, 06, 05
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Engelsk
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584

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P. David Marshall is Professor of New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at Deakin University. He is the author of Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture (1997, 2014), co-author of Persona Studies(2015). Fame Games (2000), and editor of the Celebrity Culture Reader(2006) among many other books, book chapters and articles on new media, fame and popular culture.

Sean Redmond is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. He is the editor of Celebrity Studies, Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (2006), Stardom and Celebrity: the Reader (2008), and the author of Celebrity and the Media (2014).