(Extra)ordinary? : : the concept of authenticity in celebrity and fan studies / / edited by Jade Alexander, Katarzyna Bronk.

• Superior document: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries ; Volume 101
• TeilnehmendeR: Alexander, Jade,; Bronk, Katarzyna,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; Volume 101.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (145 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; -- Contents --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction: (Extra)Ordinary? /; Constructing Celebrity --; “The Big Fellow Is Dead!”: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist Martyr /; Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in Fame /; Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform /; (Re)Envisioning Stardom --; Oscar Wilde’s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern Culture /; Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney’s Roller Derby Scene /; Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of “High” and “Low” Cultures /; Back Matter --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004366954
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jade Alexander, Katarzyna Bronk.

Questioning what “makes” a celebrity and how celebrity is controlled, dispersed and received are aspects branching out of (Extra)Ordinary’s debate over celebrities as ordinary/extraordinary. Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk, together with the authors whose chapters make up this inter-disciplinary discussion, not only utilise the existing research on celebrity and fandom, but they also go beyond the often-quoted theorists to engage in multidirectional analyses of what it means to be a celebrity, and what influence they have on the consuming public. The present book provides an avenue for exploring not just what celebrity is as a discursive construction, but also how this involves a complex interplay between celebrities, the media and the audience.