CELEBRITY STUDIES – FIRST ISSUE NOW AVAILABLE
Routledge are pleased to announce that the inaugural issue
of Celebrity Studies is now free to download online.
Celebrity
Studies focuses on the critical exploration of celebrity,
stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense of celebrity by drawing upon a range
of (inter)disciplinary approaches, media forms, historical periods and national
contexts.
Volume 1, Issue 1: Table of Contents
Editorial: A Journal in Celebrity Studies
Su Holmes and Sean Redmond
Articles:
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Approaching Celebrity Studies - Graeme
Turner
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The Adventures of the Bridge
Jumper - Jacob Smith
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The promotion and presentation of
the self: Celebrity as marker of presentational media - P. David
Marshall
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‘A trust betrayed':
celebrity and the work of emotion - Heather Nunn and Anita
Biressi
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The ‘place' of television
in celebrity studies - James Bennett and Su Holmes
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Avatar Obama in the Age of Liquid
Celebrity - Sean Redmond
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Celebrity, Ageing, And Jackie
Chan: Middle-Aged Asian In Transnational Action - Chris
Holmlund
Celebrity Forum:
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Introduction - James
Bennett
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Public Personas, Private Lives
and the Power of the Celebrity Comedian: A consideration of the Ross and Brand
‘Sachsgate' affair - Lisa Kelly
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Female Celebrities and the Media:
the gendered denigration of the ‘ordinary' celebrity - Milly
Williamson
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Celebrity Diplomacy, Spectacle and
Barack Obama - Douglas Kellner
Book Reviews:
- Seeing
Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture – by Chris Holmlund reviewed by Steve
Spittle
- Fame by
Mark Rowlands - Reviewed by Emma Bell
To access
these articles for free visit: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g919931240
and click on the articles.