Framing Celebrity
Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives - perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts.\ The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American 'quality'...
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Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American ‘quality’ television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity 'reality' TV (I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d. lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer and narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections:Fame Now broadly examines the contemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as 'reality' TV and the internet) and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame.Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and ‘authenticity’.Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.
1Introduction : understanding celebrity culture12Intimate fame everywhere273It's a jungle out there! : playing the game of fame in celebrity reality TV454'Bringing out the [star] in you' : SJP, Carrie Bradshaw and the evolution of television stardom675'I'm a celebrity, get me into politics' : the political celebrity and the celebrity politician876Not just another powerless elite? : when media fans become subcultural celebrities1017Spectacular male bodies and jazz age celebrity culture1298Seeing is believing : constructions of stardom and the gay porn star in US gay video pornography1459Celebrity skins : the illicit textuality of the celebrity nude magazine16110Get a famous body : star styles and celebrity gossip in heat magazine17711'Droppin' it like it's hot' : the sporting body of Serena Williams19512Glitter and grain : aura and authenticity in the celebrity photographs of Juergen Teller21513The mockery of cartoon celebrity : the Simpsons and the fragmented individual23114Spending time with (a) celebrity : Sam Taylor-Wood's video portrait of David Beckham24115'I'm jealous of the fake me' : postmodern subjectivity and identity construction in boy band fan fiction25316Langsters online : K. D. Lang and the creation of Internet fan communities26917Idols of destruction : celebrity and the serial killer29518Madly famous : narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture31119Celebrity : the killing fields of popular music32920'Sometimes you wanna hate celebrities' : tabloid readers and celebrity coverage343
