Mapping The Stars Celebrity Metonymy And The Networked Politics Of Identity
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| Author | : Claire Sisco King |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-07-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780814258804 |
Often dismissed as trivial or even "trash," celebrity culture offers a unique way of considering what it means to be human. In Mapping the Stars, Claire Sisco King shows how close analysis of the complex and sometimes contradictory forms of celebrity culture can challenge dominant ideas about selfhood. In particular, as a formation that develops across time, mediums, and texts, celebrity is useful for demonstrating how humanness is defined by relationality, contingency, and even vulnerability. King considers three stars with popular and controversial personas: Norman Rockwell, Will Smith, and Kim Kardashian. Working in very different contexts and with very different public images, these figures nonetheless share a consistent, if not conspicuous, interest in celebrity as a construct. Offering intertextual readings of their public images across such sites as movie posters, magazines, cinema, and social media--and deploying rhetorical theories of metonymy (a linguistic device linking signifiers by shared associations)--King argues that these stars' self-reflexive attention to the processes by which celebrity is created and constrained creates opportunities for reframing public discourse about what it means to be famous and what it means to be a person.
| Author | : Aaron Jaffe |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351916874 |
Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald) to the surprising (Elvis and Hitler). Illuminating case studies are balanced by the volume's attentiveness to broader issues related to modernist aesthetics, as the contributors consider celebrity in relationship to identity, commodification, print culture, personality, visual cultures, and theatricality. As the first book to read modernism and celebrity in the context of the crises of individual agency occasioned by the emergence of mass-mediated culture, Modernist Star Maps argues that the relationship between modernism and the popular is unthinkable without celebrity. Moreover, celebrity's strange evolution during the twentieth century is unimaginable without the intercession of modernism's system of cultural value. This innovative collection opens new avenues for understanding celebrity not only for modernist scholars but for critical theorists and cultural studies scholars.
| Author | : Christopher J. Gilbert |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2024-11-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0817361707 |
Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture
| Author | : Terence J. Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | : H. W. Wilson |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Charts the emergence of American celebrity culture, the kinds of people who achieve celebrity status, the continually evolving term celebrity, and what the country's obsession with celebrity says about its society and culture.
| Author | : Pramod K. Nayar |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2009 |
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| Author | : Thomas Schatz |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780415281355 |
'Hollywood' as a concept applies variously to a particular film style, a factory-based mode of film production, a cartel of powerful media institutions and a national (and increasingly global) 'way of seeing'. It is a complex social, cultural and industrial phenomenon and is arguably the single most important site of cultural production over the past century. This collection brings together journal articles, published essays, book chapters and excerpts which explore Hollywood as a social, economic, industrial, aesthetic and political force, and as a complex historical entity.
| Author | : Graeme Turner |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2004-05-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1412933692 |
`Graeme Turner is one of the leading figures in cultural studies today. When his gaze turns to celebrity, the result is a readable and compelling account of this most perplexing and infuriating of modern phenomena. Read on!' - Toby Miller, New York University We cannot escape celebrity culture: it is everywhere. So just what is the cultural function of celebrity? This is the first comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of celebrity from within cultural and media studies. The pervasive influence of contemporary celebrity, and the cultures it produces, has been widely noticed. Earlier studies, though, have tended to focus on the consumption of celebrity or on particular locations of celebrity - Hollywood, or the sports industries for instance. This book presents a broad survey across all media as well as a new synthesis of theoretical positions, that will be welcomed by all students of media and cultural studies. Among its attributes are the following: -It provides an overview and evaluation of the key debates surrounding the definition of celebrity, its history, and its social and cultural function -It examines the 'celebrity industries’: the PR and publicity structures that manufacture celebrity -It looks at the cultural processes through which celebrity is consumed -It draws examples from the full range of contemporary media - film, television, newspapers, magazines and the web
| Author | : Allison L. Rowland |
| Publisher | : Rhetoric and Materiality |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2020-04-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780814255827 |
Examines gut microbes, fetuses, and gym-goers in three case studies to critique the discursive practices of inclusion into humanhood.
| Author | : Lois Tyson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2012-09-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1136615563 |
Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.
| Author | : R. W. Connell |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0745634265 |
This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
