Celebrity Audiences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrity Audiences write by Martin Barker. This book was released on 2018-03-08. Celebrity Audiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new research which explores a range of audience encounters with celebrities, moving across social media, royal weddings, national identity to questions of age, gender and class. In doing so, the essays illuminate the complex and negotiated nature of audience investments in celebrity culture, collectively questioning the often simplistic and dismissive judgements that are made about audience/ celebrity relationships in this regard. The book provides a dedicated space to showcase a range of current work in the field, seeking to both consolidate and stimulate what is a vibrant and crucial aspect of studying celebrity culture.
Celebrity and Youth
Celebrity and Youth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrity and Youth write by Spring-Serenity Duvall. This book was released on 2019. Celebrity and Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines contemporary celebrity culture with an emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured, how fan communities are cultivated, and how young audiences consume and aspire to fame.
Famous People
Famous People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Famous People write by Justin Kuritzkes. This book was released on 2019-07-09. Famous People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they’re so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe revolves around them. And I’m beginning to think that it’s only when you live a life like mine—it’s only when you’re in a position where you don’t even really own yourself, when you can’t even really say that you’re a citizen of any particular country—that you realize that we’re all just tiny pieces of cosmic dust floating through the void until we disappear forever and we’re never heard from again. So begins the life story of our uber famous twenty-two year old narrator. A teen idol since he was twelve, when a video of him singing went viral, his star has only risen since. Now, haunted by the suicide of his manager-father, unsettled by the very different paths he and his teenage love (and girl pop-star counterpart) “Mandy” have taken, and increasingly aware that he has signed on to something he has little control over, he begins to parse the divide that separates him from the “normal people” of the world. Sneakily philosophical, earnest and funny, Justin Kuritzkes's Famous People is a rollicking, unforgettable look at the clash between fame and the human condition.
Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture
Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture write by Gaëlle Ouvrein. This book was released on 2024-05-15. Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines explores current understandings of celebrity-audience relationships in the context of digitalization and the ongoing celebritization of all aspects of culture and society. Focusing on the themes of celebrity and health, celebrity and identity, and celebrity and scandal, this volume presents chapters authored by experts from across the globe that deal with celebrity-audience relationships in different historical, cultural, and social settings, tackling the topics from social-psychological, critical/cultural, and persuasive perspectives. In doing so, this book highlights the broadening of disciplinary, paradigmatic, theoretical, and methodological approaches to celebrity studies research. By bringing these different approaches together in one book and drawing overall conclusions across chapters, the editors and contributors of this volume promote and facilitate cross-fertilization in ongoing efforts to grasp the fascinating complexity of celebrity-audiences relationships. Scholars of media, pop culture, and celebrity studies will find this collection particularly useful.
Celebrity and Entertainment Obsession
Celebrity and Entertainment Obsession - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrity and Entertainment Obsession write by Michael S. Levy. This book was released on 2015-08-06. Celebrity and Entertainment Obsession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrity culture surrounds us. We are inundated with information about actors and actresses, athletes, musicians, and others who have become famous or infamous. Although we never will likely meet or get to know them, our interest in them seems boundless. We are literally obsessed with being entertained as well as with the people who entertain us. Who our celebrities are has also shifted; in the past, celebrity status was bestowed on men and women of great accomplishment, those who had given the world something to be proud of and to celebrate. Conversely, today’s celebrities are generally people involved in entertainment—from TV newscasters to people who appear on reality television programs, as well as some who are simply famous for being famous. What remains an enigma is why we, as a society, are so infatuated with being entertained, as well as with those who entertain us and appear in the media. This book makes sense of this spectacle by explaining the reasons for this obsession from a psychological, social, and historical perspective. It suggests that we have become addicted in much the same way that a person becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol. Finally, the author offers his observations on how to free our minds from this captivation. Anyone interested in understanding more about our need to live vicariously through the rich and famous will find answers in this book.
