"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 enquiry Draws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity analyses Presents new and provocative ways of exploring celebrity's meanings and textures Considers the revolutionary ways in which new social media have impacted on the production and consumption of celebrity
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 ...
In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public’s desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the explosion of instant access to celebrity culture, bringing famous people and their admirers ...
" - Media International Australia This book brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of stardom and celebrity studies, while crucially combining and situating these within the context of new ...
Celebrity Persona Pandemic, Forerunner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Marshall P. David. 2016. 'Investigating digital professional persona and comparative Persona in Contemporary Culture.' Invited Public Lecture, School of ...
Understanding Celebrity, 2e. London: Sage. Warhol, A. and Colacello, ... Dare to be famous: self‐exploitation and the camera. In: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera ... A Companion to Celebrity. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
For Wahlberg, somewhat contradicting Ellin, Entourage is a docu-drama about the “realities” of show business. But for fans of the series, its appeal rests on its depiction of a Playboy life style replete with money and free sexual ...
Beyond perfection: the fashion model in the age of digital manipulation. ... People in fashionable clothes: street style blogs and the ontology of the fashion photograph. ... Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990.
International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of ...
The book focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era, and the resulting transformation of such key areas of literary practice as publishing, bookselling, book reviewing, and ...
published on the cultural and social dynamics of new media, with books including Digital Disability (2003), Virtual Nation: ... 2009), The Uses of Digital Literacy (2009/10), and Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies (2012).