Sean Redmond
A Companion to Celebrity
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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 genea…
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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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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Marshall, P. David
- ISBN: 978-1-118-47507-2
- EAN: 9781118475072
- Produktnummer: 19023377
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 584 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'559 KB
Über den Autor
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).
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