Celebrity

Name: Celebrity
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415527439
Price: 341.0 NZD
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By Sean Redmond

Series: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies

Summary

Celebrity introduces key terms, concepts, dilemmas, and issues essential to the study and critical understanding of celebrity culture. It employs two dynamic models—the circuit of celebrity culture and the circuit of celebrity affect—to explore the multi-layered contexts surrounding celebrity. The book covers themes such as identity, representation, the celebrity body, consumption of celebrity culture, fan-celebrity relationships, gender, activism, gossip, and toxicity. Case studies include Miley Cyrus, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson, and Kate Winslet.
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Ideal for students and academics in celebrity and cultural studies seeking a comprehensive and critical introduction to celebrity theory and culture.

Celebrity: Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies will introduce students to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity.

Description

Celebrity introduces the key terms and concepts, dilemmas, and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity.

Drawing on two dynamic models from two different modes of enquiry – the circuit of celebrity culture and the circuit of celebrity affect – this book explores the multi-layered, multi-faceted contexts and concepts that sit within and surround the study of celebrity. Through building a critical story about celebrity, Sean Redmond discusses key topics such as identity and representation; the celebrity body; the consumption of celebrity and celebrity culture; and the sensory connection between fans and celebrities, gender, activism, gossip, and toxicity.

Including case studies on Miley Cyrus, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson, and Kate Winslet, Celebrity is a dynamic and topical volume ideal for students and academics in celebrity and cultural studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415527439

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 July 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 790g

Pages: 332

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Sean Redmond Series: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies

About the Author

Sean Redmond is Professor in Screen and Design at Deakin University, Australia. He convenes the Melbourne-based Eye Tracking and the Moving Image Research Group, and the Science Fiction Research Group at Deakin University. He has published numerous books on celebrity, including A Companion to Celebrity (2015), Celebrity and the Media (2014), and Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (2006). With Su Holmes, he edits the journal Celebrity Studies, short-listed by The Association of Learned Professional Society Publishers for best new academic journal in 2011.