Celebrity Studies

Routledge, March 2010, - Unspecified

Celebrity Studies focuses on the critical exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense of celebrity by drawing upon a range of (inter)disciplinary approaches, media forms, historical periods and national contexts.

Volume 1, Issue 1: Table of Contents

Editorial: A Journal in Celebrity Studies                        

Su Holmes and Sean Redmond

Articles:

-       Approaching Celebrity Studies - Graeme Turner

-       The Adventures of the Bridge Jumper - Jacob Smith

-       The promotion and presentation of the self: Celebrity as marker of presentational media - P. David Marshall

-       ‘A trust betrayed': celebrity and the work of emotion - Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi

-       The ‘place' of television in celebrity studies - James Bennett and Su Holmes

-       Avatar Obama in the Age of Liquid Celebrity - Sean Redmond

-       Celebrity, Ageing, And Jackie Chan: Middle-Aged Asian In Transnational Action - Chris Holmlund

Celebrity Forum:

-       Introduction - James Bennett

-       Public Personas, Private Lives and the Power of the Celebrity Comedian: A consideration of the Ross and Brand ‘Sachsgate' affair - Lisa Kelly

-       Female Celebrities and the Media: the gendered denigration of the ‘ordinary' celebrity - Milly Williamson

-       Celebrity Diplomacy, Spectacle and Barack Obama - Douglas Kellner

Book Reviews:

-       Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture – by Chris Holmlund reviewed by Steve Spittle

-       Fame by Mark Rowlands - Reviewed by Emma Bell

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