Stardom and celebrity: a reader
'Stardom and Celebrity' brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of star/celebrity studies, while combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture.
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- Full title :Stardom and celebrity : a reader / edited by Su Holmes, Sean Redmond.
Summary
'Stardom and Celebrity' brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of star/celebrity studies, while combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SAGE
- Place of Publication:London, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 375 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781412923217, 1412923212
- oclc:ocn748999603
- LC Classification:BJ1470.5
- Dewey Decimal:306.4
Table of Contents
Introduction: What's in a Reader? / Sean Redmond and Su Holmes -- 1. The Nature of Charismatic Domination / Max Weber -- 2. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- 3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception / Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- 4. Myth Today / Roland Barthes -- 'THAT-HAS-BEEN'; The Pose; The Luminous Rays, Colour; Amazement; Authentification / Roland Barthes -- 5. The Ecstasy of Communication / Jean Baudrillard -- 6. The Powerless 'Elite': Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars / Francesco Alberoni -- 7. Stars / Richard Dyer -- Heavenly Bodies / Richard Dyer -- 8. Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon / John Ellis -- 9. Re-examining Stardom: Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance / Christine Geraghty -- 10. From Beyond Control to In Control: Investigating Drew Barrymore's Feminist Agency/Authorship / Rebecca Williams -- 11. The Emergence of the Star System in America / Richard deCordova -- 12. The Assembly Line of Greatness: Celebrity in Twentieth-Century America / Joshua Gamson -- 13. 'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery': Celebrities, 'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life (BBC, 1955-…
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