Disassembling the Celebrity Figure

Credibility and the Incredible
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36531-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible questions the credibility of celebrity brands, exploring how fandoms depend on perceptions and representations of authenticity. It asks how authenticity is projected by global celebrities, and how fans consume these carefully curated personas, and explores how the media breaks down barriers between celebrities and fans. It presents a discussion of celebrities as brands, exploring how their images are maintained after they pass away. It also offers analysis of the ways in which historical figures are later reconstructed as celebrities, and explores how their images are circulated and consumed across contemporary media. Ultimately, the book examines authenticity in celebrity culture by looking at fandom, media representation, branding and celebrity deaths.

Contributors are Marie Josephine Bennett, Lise Dilling-Nielsen, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Mingyi Hou, Renata Iwicka, Ephraim Das Janssen, Magdalen Wing-Chi Ki, Celia Lam, Mirella Longo, Aliah Mansor, Jackie Raphael and Millicent Weber.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raphael, Jackie

Lam, Celia

Weber, Millicent

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Assembling Celebrity Analysis
Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael and Millicent Weber

Part I Constructed Authenticity: Fan Consumption of Celebrity Persona

Johnny’s Idol Persona Constructions and Female Fandom Consumption
Aliah Mansor

‘Everyone is so Cynical’: On Authenticity in the World of Gaga
Lise Dilling-Nielsen

Participatory Consumption of Celebrity Products: Gangnam Style and its Parodies
Mingyi Hou

Part II Deconstructing Authenticity: ‘Getting Backstage’ Behind Celebrity Personas

Stars Are Like Us: a Discourse Analysis of Printed Celebrity Press
Mirella Maines

Backstage Spaces: The Sherlock Incident
Celia Lam

Every Breath You Take: Sasaeng Fans
Renata Iwicka

Part III Structured Authenticity: Eternal Celebrity Brands

Paul Walker: The Facts and the Fiction
Jackie Raphael

Trapped: James Douglas Morrison and His Enduring Celebrity Persona
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Part IV Reconstructed Authenticity: Contemporary Re-Imagining of Historical Figures

Did it Really Happen? Celebrity and Authenticity
Ephraim Das Janssen

The Biopic Bias and Becoming Jane
Magdalen Wing-Chi Ki

Shamadeus? Reconstructing Mozart: The Continuing Impact of Amadeus and Myths on Mozart Reception
Marie Josephine Bennett

Über Autor(innen)

Celia Lam, Ph.D. (2011), University of Sydney, is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. She has published on celebrity and fan studies, including Becoming Brands: Celebrity, Activism and Politics (WaterHill, 2017).

Jackie Raphael, Ph.D. (2013), Curtin University, is a sessional academic at that university. She has published various papers and books including Becoming Brands: Celebrity, Activism and Politics (2017) and Building Bridges in Celebrity Studies (2016).

Millicent Weber, Ph.D. (2016), Monash University, is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her work on publishing and literary culture appears in Convergence and Continuum, and most recently in Publishing Means Business: Australian Perspectives (Monash University Publishing, 2017).