TY  - BOOK
AU  - Redmond, Sean, ed.
TI  - Stardom and celebrity : a reader
SN  - 978-1-4129-2321-7
U1  - 920 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Fame
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Celebrities
KW  - Celebrities in mass media
N1  - 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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