Stardom and celebrity : a reader / edited by Sean Redmond
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TextPublication details: London : SAGE Publications, 2007Description: xiv, 375 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 978-1-4129-2321-7Subject(s): Fame | Fame -- Social aspects | Celebrities | Celebrities in mass mediaDDC classification: 920 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 920 RED/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P14851 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-362) and index.
Introduction: what' in a reader? / S. Redmond and S. Holmes -- Star and celebrity culture : theoretical antecedents -- The analysis of fame : understanding stardom -- Fame--remember my name? : histories of stardom and celebrity -- Producing fame : 'Because I'm worth it' -- Made in culture : star and celebrity representations -- Consuming fame/becoming famous : celebrity and its audience.
PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS
The Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max Weber
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer
Myth Today - Roland Barthes
"THAT-HAS-BEEN"; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland Barthes
The Ecstasy of Communication - Jean Baudrillard
PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM
The Powerless Elite - Franceso Alberoni
Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars
Stars - Richard Dyer
Heavenly Bodies - Richard Dyer
Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John Ellis
Re-examining Stardom - Christine Geraghty
Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance
From /f003Beyond Control/f001 to In Control - Rebecca Williams
Investigating Barrymore's Feminist Agency//Authorship
PART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITY
The Emergence of the Star System in America - Richard deCordova
The Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua Gamson
Celebrity in Twentith-Century America
'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery' - Su Holmes
Celebrities,'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life
Celebrity and Religion - Chris Rojek
The Dream of Acceptability - Leo Braudy
PART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: 'BECAUSE /f003I'M/f001 WORTH IT'
The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme Turner
Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. Epstein
Who Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip Drake
Celebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo Littler
From the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche Ommundsen
Understanding Literary Celebrity
PART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONS
The Face of Garbo - Roland Barthes
The Whiteness of Stars - Sean Redmond
Looking at Kate Winslet's Unruly White Body
The Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Mary C. Beltran
Media Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's "Cross-over Butt"
'Ozzy Worked for those /f003Bleeping/f001 Doors with the Crosses on them' - Lisa Holderman
/f003The Osbournes/f001 as Social Class Narrative
Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves - Mary Flanagan
PART SIX: CONSUMING FAME//BECOMING FAMOUS: CELEBRITY AND ITS AUDIENCE
With Stars in their Eyes - Jackie Stacey
Female Spectators and the Paradoxes of Consumption
A Star is Dead: A Legend is Born - Yiman Wang
Practicing Leslie Cheung's Posthumous Fandom
Doing it For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame - Catherine Lumby
Media Power - Nick Couldry
Some Hidden Dimensions
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