Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics

Jane Arthurs is Professor of Television at Middlesex University. She has published widely on film and television and feminist cultural studies. Her book Television and Sexuality on how the cultural politics of taste affects production, regulation and consumption, includes her well known essay on ‘Sex and the City and Consumer Culture’. Ben Little is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Politics at the University of East Anglia. He co-edits Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture and is series editor for the Radical Future ebook series.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Stand up Comedy.- 3. Hybrid Media Celebrity.- 4. From Celebrity Apparatus to Political Assemblage.-