Bronwen Thomas is Associate Professor in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.Julia Round is Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.

Today the lives of the famous, the infamous, and the ordinary citizen are told and shown across a plethora of forms and platforms. Julia Round and Bronwen Thomas should be congratulated on putting together a collection of road maps for this new life-telling that are consistently critical and compelling.

• Introduction, Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round Stories We Live By 1. Storying Cyberspace: Narratives and Metaphors, Sue Thomas 2. Me and You and Everyone We Know: The Centrality of Character in Understanding Media Texts, Craig Batty Transforming The Ordinary/Everyday 3. The Good, the Bad and the Healthy: The Transforming Body and Narratives of Health and Beauty in Reality Tv, Peri Bradley 4. Competence in Your Own Enactment: Subjectivity and the Theorization of Participatory Art, Simon Grennan 5. The Transformations of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor: “Ordinary Life is Pretty Complex Stuff”, Julia Round The Politics Of Representing Real People 6. Narratives of Trauma Re-Lived: The Ethnographer’s Paradox and Other Tales, Marina Lambrou 7. Autobiography and Political Marketing: Narrative and the Obama Brand, Darren G. Lilleker 8. Merging Fact and Fiction: Cult Celebrity, Film Narrative and the Henry Lee Lucas Story, Shaun Kimber Celebrity Lives Reimagined 9. Fans Behaving Badly? Real Person Fic and the Blurring of the Boundaries between the Public and the Private, Bronwen Thomas 10. Remembering Frank Sinatra: Celebrity Studies Meets Memory Studies, Roberta Pearson Notes On Contributors Index

Bronwen Thomas is Associate Professor in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.Julia Round is Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.

Today the lives of the famous, the infamous, and the ordinary citizen are told and shown across a plethora of forms and platforms. Julia Round and Bronwen Thomas should be congratulated on putting together a collection of road maps for this new life-telling that are consistently critical and compelling.

• Introduction, Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round Stories We Live By 1. Storying Cyberspace: Narratives and Metaphors, Sue Thomas 2. Me and You and Everyone We Know: The Centrality of Character in Understanding Media Texts, Craig Batty Transforming The Ordinary/Everyday 3. The Good, the Bad and the Healthy: The Transforming Body and Narratives of Health and Beauty in Reality Tv, Peri Bradley 4. Competence in Your Own Enactment: Subjectivity and the Theorization of Participatory Art, Simon Grennan 5. The Transformations of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor: “Ordinary Life is Pretty Complex Stuff”, Julia Round The Politics Of Representing Real People 6. Narratives of Trauma Re-Lived: The Ethnographer’s Paradox and Other Tales, Marina Lambrou 7. Autobiography and Political Marketing: Narrative and the Obama Brand, Darren G. Lilleker 8. Merging Fact and Fiction: Cult Celebrity, Film Narrative and the Henry Lee Lucas Story, Shaun Kimber Celebrity Lives Reimagined 9. Fans Behaving Badly? Real Person Fic and the Blurring of the Boundaries between the Public and the Private, Bronwen Thomas 10. Remembering Frank Sinatra: Celebrity Studies Meets Memory Studies, Roberta Pearson Notes On Contributors Index

Bronwen Thomas is Associate Professor in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.Julia Round is Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.

Today the lives of the famous, the infamous, and the ordinary citizen are told and shown across a plethora of forms and platforms. Julia Round and Bronwen Thomas should be congratulated on putting together a collection of road maps for this new life-telling that are consistently critical and compelling.

• Introduction, Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round Stories We Live By 1. Storying Cyberspace: Narratives and Metaphors, Sue Thomas 2. Me and You and Everyone We Know: The Centrality of Character in Understanding Media Texts, Craig Batty Transforming The Ordinary/Everyday 3. The Good, the Bad and the Healthy: The Transforming Body and Narratives of Health and Beauty in Reality Tv, Peri Bradley 4. Competence in Your Own Enactment: Subjectivity and the Theorization of Participatory Art, Simon Grennan 5. The Transformations of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor: “Ordinary Life is Pretty Complex Stuff”, Julia Round The Politics Of Representing Real People 6. Narratives of Trauma Re-Lived: The Ethnographer’s Paradox and Other Tales, Marina Lambrou 7. Autobiography and Political Marketing: Narrative and the Obama Brand, Darren G. Lilleker 8. Merging Fact and Fiction: Cult Celebrity, Film Narrative and the Henry Lee Lucas Story, Shaun Kimber Celebrity Lives Reimagined 9. Fans Behaving Badly? Real Person Fic and the Blurring of the Boundaries between the Public and the Private, Bronwen Thomas 10. Remembering Frank Sinatra: Celebrity Studies Meets Memory Studies, Roberta Pearson Notes On Contributors Index