′...an often engaging and often insightful book... Among the best pieces in the 29 chapter collection are those by Australian academics Graeme Turner, whose clear and concise chapter "The Economy of Celebrity" illustrates the industrial imperatives of stardom, and Catherine Lumby, who brings the experience of contemporary teen girl fandom to life in "Doing It For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame". And Richard de Cordova′s chapter on the emergence of the American star system delivers a fascinating analysis of the construction of the celebrity system in movies′ - Media International Australia

• PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTSThe Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max WeberThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter BenjaminThe Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max HorkheimerMyth Today - Roland Barthes"THAT-HAS-BEEN"; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland BarthesThe Ecstasy of Communication - Jean BaudrillardPART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOMThe Powerless Elite - Franceso AlberoniTheory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the StarsStars - Richard DyerHeavenly Bodies - Richard DyerStars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John EllisRe-examining Stardom - Christine GeraghtyQuestions of Texts, Bodies and PerformanceFrom Beyond Control to In Control - Rebecca WilliamsInvestigating Barrymore′s Feminist Agency/AuthorshipPART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITYThe Emergence of the Star System in America - Richard deCordovaThe Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua GamsonCelebrity in Twentith-Century America′Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery′ - Su HolmesCelebrities,′Ordinary′ People, and This is Your LifeCelebrity and Religion - Chris RojekThe Dream of Acceptability - Leo BraudyPART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: ′BECAUSE I′M WORTH IT′The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme TurnerSharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. EpsteinWho Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip DrakeCelebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo LittlerFrom the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche OmmundsenUnderstanding Literary CelebrityPART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONSThe Face of Garbo - Roland BarthesThe Whiteness of Stars - Sean RedmondLooking at Kate Winslet′s Unruly White BodyThe Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Mary C. BeltranMedia Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez′s "Cross-over Butt"′Ozzy Worked for those Bleeping Doors with the Crosses on them′ - Lisa HoldermanThe Osbournes as Social Class NarrativeMobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves - Mary FlanaganPART SIX: CONSUMING FAME/BECOMING FAMOUS: CELEBRITY AND ITS AUDIENCEWith Stars in their Eyes - Jackie StaceyFemale Spectators and the Paradoxes of ConsumptionA Star is Dead: A Legend is Born - Yiman WangPracticing Leslie Cheung′sPosthumous FandomDoing it For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame - Catherine LumbyMedia Power - Nick CouldrySome Hidden Dimensions

′...an often engaging and often insightful book... Among the best pieces in the 29 chapter collection are those by Australian academics Graeme Turner, whose clear and concise chapter "The Economy of Celebrity" illustrates the industrial imperatives of stardom, and Catherine Lumby, who brings the experience of contemporary teen girl fandom to life in "Doing It For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame". And Richard de Cordova′s chapter on the emergence of the American star system delivers a fascinating analysis of the construction of the celebrity system in movies′ - Media International Australia

• PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTSThe Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max WeberThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter BenjaminThe Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max HorkheimerMyth Today - Roland Barthes"THAT-HAS-BEEN"; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland BarthesThe Ecstasy of Communication - Jean BaudrillardPART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOMThe Powerless Elite - Franceso AlberoniTheory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the StarsStars - Richard DyerHeavenly Bodies - Richard DyerStars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John EllisRe-examining Stardom - Christine GeraghtyQuestions of Texts, Bodies and PerformanceFrom Beyond Control to In Control - Rebecca WilliamsInvestigating Barrymore′s Feminist Agency/AuthorshipPART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITYThe Emergence of the Star System in America - Richard deCordovaThe Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua GamsonCelebrity in Twentith-Century America′Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery′ - Su HolmesCelebrities,′Ordinary′ People, and This is Your LifeCelebrity and Religion - Chris RojekThe Dream of Acceptability - Leo BraudyPART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: ′BECAUSE I′M WORTH IT′The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme TurnerSharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. EpsteinWho Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip DrakeCelebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo LittlerFrom the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche OmmundsenUnderstanding Literary CelebrityPART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONSThe Face of Garbo - Roland BarthesThe Whiteness of Stars - Sean RedmondLooking at Kate Winslet′s Unruly White BodyThe Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Mary C. BeltranMedia Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez′s "Cross-over Butt"′Ozzy Worked for those Bleeping Doors with the Crosses on them′ - Lisa HoldermanThe Osbournes as Social Class NarrativeMobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves - Mary FlanaganPART SIX: CONSUMING FAME/BECOMING FAMOUS: CELEBRITY AND ITS AUDIENCEWith Stars in their Eyes - Jackie StaceyFemale Spectators and the Paradoxes of ConsumptionA Star is Dead: A Legend is Born - Yiman WangPracticing Leslie Cheung′sPosthumous FandomDoing it For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame - Catherine LumbyMedia Power - Nick CouldrySome Hidden Dimensions

′...an often engaging and often insightful book... Among the best pieces in the 29 chapter collection are those by Australian academics Graeme Turner, whose clear and concise chapter "The Economy of Celebrity" illustrates the industrial imperatives of stardom, and Catherine Lumby, who brings the experience of contemporary teen girl fandom to life in "Doing It For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame". And Richard de Cordova′s chapter on the emergence of the American star system delivers a fascinating analysis of the construction of the celebrity system in movies′ - Media International Australia

• PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTSThe Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max WeberThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter BenjaminThe Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max HorkheimerMyth Today - Roland Barthes"THAT-HAS-BEEN"; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland BarthesThe Ecstasy of Communication - Jean BaudrillardPART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOMThe Powerless Elite - Franceso AlberoniTheory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the StarsStars - Richard DyerHeavenly Bodies - Richard DyerStars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John EllisRe-examining Stardom - Christine GeraghtyQuestions of Texts, Bodies and PerformanceFrom Beyond Control to In Control - Rebecca WilliamsInvestigating Barrymore′s Feminist Agency/AuthorshipPART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITYThe Emergence of the Star System in America - Richard deCordovaThe Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua GamsonCelebrity in Twentith-Century America′Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery′ - Su HolmesCelebrities,′Ordinary′ People, and This is Your LifeCelebrity and Religion - Chris RojekThe Dream of Acceptability - Leo BraudyPART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: ′BECAUSE I′M WORTH IT′The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme TurnerSharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. EpsteinWho Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip DrakeCelebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo LittlerFrom the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche OmmundsenUnderstanding Literary CelebrityPART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONSThe Face of Garbo - Roland BarthesThe Whiteness of Stars - Sean RedmondLooking at Kate Winslet′s Unruly White BodyThe Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Mary C. BeltranMedia Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez′s "Cross-over Butt"′Ozzy Worked for those Bleeping Doors with the Crosses on them′ - Lisa HoldermanThe Osbournes as Social Class NarrativeMobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves - Mary FlanaganPART SIX: CONSUMING FAME/BECOMING FAMOUS: CELEBRITY AND ITS AUDIENCEWith Stars in their Eyes - Jackie StaceyFemale Spectators and the Paradoxes of ConsumptionA Star is Dead: A Legend is Born - Yiman WangPracticing Leslie Cheung′sPosthumous FandomDoing it For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame - Catherine LumbyMedia Power - Nick CouldrySome Hidden Dimensions