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Informationen zum Autor Dr Su Holmes is Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Kent, the author of British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s: Coming to a TV Near You! (2005) and co-editor of Understanding Reality Television (Routledge, 2004). Dr Sean Redmond is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand, the co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor (2003) and the editor of Liquid Metal: The reader in science fiction film (2004). Klappentext From The Simpsons and heat magazine, to Sarah Jessica Parker and *NSYNC, this timely and much-needed collection analyzes fame, and presents essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and poltical contexts. Zusammenfassung From The Simpsons and heat magazine, to Sarah Jessica Parker and *NSYNC, this timely and much-needed collection analyzes fame, and presents essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and poltical contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Understanding Celebrity Culture Section 1: Fame Now 1. Intimate Fame Everywhere 2. Its a Jungle Out There!: Playing the Game of Fame in Celebrity Reality TV 3. Bringing Out The * in You: SJP, Carrie Bradshaw and the Evolution of Television Stardom 4. I’m a Celebrity, Get Me into Politics: The Political Celebrity and the Celebrity Politician 5. Not Just Another "Powerless Elite"? When Fans Become Subcultural Celebrities Section 2: Fame Body 6. Spectacular Male Bodies and Jazz Age Celebrity Culture 7. Seeing is Believing: Constructions of Stardom and the Gay Porn Star in U.S. Gay Video Pornography 8. Celebrity Skins: The Illicit Textuality of the Celebrity Nude Magazine 9. Get a Famous Body: Star Styles and Celebrity Gossip in heat Magazine 10. Droppin’ It Like Its Hot: The Sporting Body of Serena Williams Section 3: Fame Simulation 11. Glitter and Grain: Aura and Authenticity in the Celebrity Photographs of Juergen Teller 12. The Mockery of Cartoon Celebrity: The Simpsons and the Fragmented Individual 13. Spending Time with (a) Celebrity: Sam Taylor-Woods Video Portrait of David Beckham 14. "I’m Jealous of the Fake Me": Postmodern Subjectivity and Identity Construction in Boy Band Fiction 15. Langsters’ Online: kd lang and the Creation of Internet Fan Communities Section 4: Fame Damage 16. Idols of Destruction: Celebrity and the Serial Killer 17. Madly Famous: Narratives of Mental Illness in Celebrity Culture 18. Celebrity: The Killing Fields of Popular Music 19. "Sometimes you Wanna Hate Celebrities": Tabloid Readers and Celebrity Coverage. Bibliography ...
