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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