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Table of Contents
Contents

Introduction to the Second Edition. Celebrity in the Digital Era: A New Public Intimacy
Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture

Preface

Part I
1. Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individuals
2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience
3. Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power

Part II
4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity
5. Television’s Construction of the Celebrity
6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity
7. The System of Celebrity

Part III
The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture

Conclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity
Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture

Notes
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/15/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816695621, 978-0816695621
      ISBN10: 0816695628
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      Cultural studies Media studies Popular culture

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Contents

      Introduction to the Second Edition. Celebrity in the Digital Era: A New Public Intimacy
      Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture

      Preface

      Part I
      1. Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individuals
      2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience
      3. Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power

      Part II
      4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity
      5. Television’s Construction of the Celebrity
      6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity
      7. The System of Celebrity

      Part III
      The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture

      Conclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity
      Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture

      Notes
      Index

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