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About This Book
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:
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- 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.
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- Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame.
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- Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and 'authenticity'.
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- Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.
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- Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations
- Academy Awards 31, 306
- Adam Ant, mental illness 315, 316
- advertising: and otherness 202
- Serena Williams 196, 200–203
- aesthetics, and authenticity 221–223
- African Americans: benefiting from Serena Williams’ celebrity 203–204
- double consciousness 197
- AIDS, effects on gay pornography 146, 147
- Albert, Prince, photograph 217
- alcohol, and rock music 330–332
- American culture: and black sporting body 196–200
- serial killers in 301–302, 308–309
- American quality television (AQT), and TV stardom 81–82
- Andre, Peter: feelings for Jordan 54, 56–57
- singing 59
- writes ‘OZ’ on face 50
- Ant and Dec 50, 59
- aristocracy, symbols of 51
- armour, worn by stars 261
- Armstrong, Heather, and Asian Database Administrator 28–29
- Armstrong, Tim, on bodily reconstitution 130
- Asian Database Administrator 28–29
- Atlantic (Sam Taylor-Wood) 245
- Atlas, Charles, masculinity 136
- audience power, reality TV 58–60
- authenticity: aesthetics of 221–223
- and cartoon celebrity 232–234
- celebrities 4, 53–54, 209–212
- celebrity nude magazines 163, 167
- digital images 210–211
- Juergen Teller's photographs 221–225
- and nakedness 168–170
- photography 219, 221–225
- stars 53–54, 60, 209–212
- and w...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Fame Now
- Fame Body
- Fame Simulation
- Fame Damage
- Bibliography
- Index