(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).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: (Extra)Ordinary? / Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk -- Constructing Celebrity -- “The Big Fellow Is Dead!”: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist Martyr / Amber Anna Colvin -- Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in Fame / Samita Nandy -- Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform / Sandra Mayer -- (Re)Envisioning Stardom -- Oscar Wilde’s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern Culture / Anna Fomichenko -- Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney’s Roller Derby Scene / Jade Alexander -- Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of “High” and “Low” Cultures / Mira Moshe -- Back Matter -- Index.