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:
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
Sreya Mitra
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
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