Stardom and Celebrity : A Reader

"This welcome addition to the literature on fame goes beyond goes beyond stardom--though Redmond and Holmes cover that topic well--to discuss stardom and celebrity in general." - A.L. Knight, CHOICE This book brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of star/celebrity studies, while crucially combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture. At the core of the collection is a desire to map out a unique historical trajectory - both in terms of the development of fame, as well as the historical development of star/celebrity studies.

Sean Redmond is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Victoria University, Wellington Su Holmes is Reader in Television Studies at the University of East Anglia

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: What's in a Reader?	p. 1
Star and Celebrity Culture: Theoretical Antecedents	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Tine Nature of Charismatic Domination	p. 17
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	p. 25
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception	p. 34
Myth Today	p. 44
'That-Has-Been'; The Pose; The Luminous Rays, Colour; Amazement; Authentification	p. 49
The Ecstasy of Communication	p. 53
The Analysis of Fame: Understanding Stardom	p. 61
Introduction	p. 61
The Powerless 'Elite': Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars	p. 65
Stars	p. 78
Heavenly Bodies	p. 85
Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon	p. 90
Re-examining Stardom: Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance	p. 98
From Beyond Contral to In Control: Investigating Drew Barrymore's Feminist Agency/Authorship	p. 111
Fame - Remember My Name?: Histories of Stardom and Celebrity	p. 127
Redmond	p. 127
The Emergence of the Star System in America	p. 132
The Assembly Line of Greatness: Celebrity in Twentieth-Century America	p. 141
'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery': Celebrities, 'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life (BBC, 1955-65)	p. 156
Celebrity and Religion	p. 171
The Dream of Acceptability	p. 181
Producing Fame: 'Because I'm Worth It'	p. 189
Introduction	p. 189
The Economy of Celebrity	p. 193
Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck	p. 206
Who Owns Celebrity?: Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images	p. 219
Celebrity CEOs and the Cultural Economy of Tabloid Intimacy	p. 230
From the Altar to the Market-Place and Back Again: Understanding Literary Celebrity	p. 244
Made in Culture: Star and Celebrity Representations	p. 257
Introduction	p. 257
The Face of Garbo	p. 261
The Whiteness of Stars: Looking at Kate Winslet's Unruly White Body	p. 263
The Hollywood Latina Body as Site of Social Struggle: Media Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's "Cross-over Butt"	p. 275
'Ozzy Worked for Those Bleeping Doors with the Crosses on Them': The Osbournes as Social Class Narrative	p. 287
Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves	p. 298
Consuming Fame/Becoming Famous?: Celebrity and its Audience	p. 309
Introduction	p. 309
With Stars in Their Eyes: Female Spectators and the Paradoxes of Consumption	p. 313
A Star is Dead: A Legend is Born: Practicing Leslie Cheung's Posthumous Fandom	p. 326
Doing It For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame	p. 341
Media Power: Some Hidden Dimensions	p. 353
Bibliography	p. 360
Index	p. 363
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