Star and Celebrity Confessional

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

In this book the different manifestations, meanings, and processes of the star and celebrity confessional will be explored. The confessional is taken to be any moment in which a star, celebrity, or fan engages in revelatory acts that are considered to be authentic, heart-felt, and honest. These confessional encounters can take place in an interview, through performance and presentation events, online, and in ‘unscripted’ encounters. A star may break down in tears, or reveal a previously unknown truth about their private life. However, this authenticity is often found to have been manufactured, or is timed to occur against a new release or product launch. Alternatively, the desire to confess may be seen to draw attention to the centrality of pseudo forms of emotion in contemporary culture and the obsessional behaviour it produces. In this book authors consider acts of confession by celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, Jade Goody, Britney Spears, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tracey Emin, and Russell Crowe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-12-03
Mått:174 x 246 x 15 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415614542

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Sean Redmond is Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of wellington. He is editor of Celebrity Studies, and co-editor of Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (Routledge, 2006). He is presently working on the monographs Celebrity and the Media, and Emotional Celebrity.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: the star and celebrity confessional Sean Redmond2. Stardom, celebrity and the para-confession Barry King3. Jade’s confession: racism and the dialectics of celebrity Momin Rahman4. Pieces of me: celebrity confessional carnality Sean Redmond5. Still something else besides a mother? Negotiating celebrity motherhood in Sarah Jessica Parker’s star story Deborah Jermyn6. Living with fame: Geri and Living with Michael Jackson Ian Goode7. The ethical violence of celebrity chat: Russell Crowe and David Gulpilil Felicity Collins8. For the love of Jodie Foster: star demystification and national configuration Gabriel Wettach9. Articulating authenticity through artifice: the contemporary relevance of Tracey Emin’s confessional art Christine Fanthome10. ‘‘I feel your pain’’: cosmopolitan charity and the public fashioning of the celebrity soul Jo Littler11. Restricted confessions? Blogging, subcultural celebrity and the management of producer fan proximity Bertha Chin and Matt Hills