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Celebrity Studies Journal 11.1 Special Issue on Desecrating Celebrity now online


Celebrity Studies Journal is pleased and proud to announce the release of our latest issue on the theme 'Desecrating Celebrity’.

 

Many thanks to Special Issue editors Romana Andò and Sean Redmond for your hard work.

 

The issue available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcel20/11/1?nav=tocList


For a sneak peak at the contents, please check out the list of articles below:

 

Desecrating celebrity

Romana Andò and Sean Redmond

 

Articles

Taking down the sacred: fuck-me vs. fuck-you celebrity

Misha Kavka

 

Beautiful penitent whore: the desecrated celebrity of Mary Magdalene

Lucy Bolton

 

A Venus in marble and Bakelite: Ava Gardner and One Touch of Venus (1948)

Michael Williams

 

White trash celebrity in the age of eugenics: desecrating Clara Bow

Gaylyn Studlar

 

Who will fix it for us? Toxic celebrity and the therapeutic dynamics of media culture

Caroline Bainbridge

 

De-celebrification: beyond the scandalous

Mette Mortensen and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen

 

Trolled, body-shamed and slut-shamed: the desecration of the contemporary Bollywood female star on social media

Sreya Mitra

 

Desecration and the politics of ‘image pollution’: Ambedkar statues and the ‘sculptural encounter’ in India

Pramod K Nayar

 

President Trump: celebrity-in-chief and the desecration of political authority

Anita Biressi


Forum

Your face is a mess: desecrating David Bowie’s face-as-commodity in ‘Diamond Dogs’

Ian Dixon

 

From awkward teen girl to aryan goddess meme: Taylor Swift and the hijacking of star texts

Annelot Prins

 

Jaak Joala – ‘Kremlin nightingale’ or Estonian celebrity?

Heli Reimann

 

Trainwreck femininity and Whitney: monstrous feminine redux

Susan Hopkins

 



Regards,
Celia
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Dr Celia Lam

Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural studies

Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

 

School of International Communications

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Room 337, Trent Building

199 Taikang East Road

Ningbo 315100

  


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