Living in the limelight : : dynamics of the celebrity experience / / edited by Kylo-Patrick R. Hart.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hart, Kylo-Patrick R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, United Kingdom : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

For the typical celebrity, living in the limelight has never been particularly easy, and it seems to be getting harder every day. Although celebrity in the current century is similar to how it has been experienced in the past, the widespread availability of the Internet and its endless innovative potentialities have certainly brought about changes and new challenges. Today, it is not uncommon for this seemingly desirable cult of personality to, at times, take on an unexpected life of its own, sweeping unprepared celebrities along for the ride. To enable readers to grasp the cumulative complexity of contemporary celebrity culture, this book explores dynamics of the celebrity experience in recent centuries and up to the present day. In doing so, it explicitly analyses ever-changing phenomena of relevance to the celebrity experience, the importance and impact of fans and fandom(s), and the various pleasures and pitfalls that celebrities regularly encounter.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart -- Mozart, Amadeus, and Celebrity Culture / Marie Bennett -- Local Celebrity and the World of Jane Austen / Magdalen Wing-Chi Ki -- Sex Sells: Beauty, the Female Body, and Celebrity Culture in the Fin-de-Siècle / Laura di Maio -- Trapped by Celebrity Status and Dead Too Soon: Aspirational Limitations and the Career Trajectories of Marilyn Monroe and Jim Morrison / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart -- Social Identity of Fans and Its Interaction with Fandom / Hao-Ting Wang -- Imagine Others Complexly: Boundary Breaking and Community Building of the Vlogbrothers and Nerdfighteria / Pei-Wun Liao -- More Than a Text: On the Affective Relation between Lady Gaga and Her Fans / Lise Dilling-Hansen -- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Dynamics of Fan Fiction Production / Celia Lam -- Shaaban Abdel Rahim and the Changing Stardom Culture in Egypt / Malgorzata Kniaz -- The Use of Publicity Stunts in Korean Pop / Isyana Adriani -- There Will Be Blood: The Darker Side of K-Pop Fandom / Renata Iwicka -- Keeping It Real! Immortal Celebrity, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Authenticity / Simon Bacon -- Daniel Libeskind: The Only Celebrity among ‘Starchitects’? / Andrzej Klimek -- To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen: Narcissistic Tendencies among Bloggers / Petra Novakova -- Parodic Participation as Consumption of Celebrity Products: The Case of ‘Gangnam Style’ / Mingyi Hou -- When Did Darth Vader Turn Cuddly? Phenomenology and Fandom / Ephraim Das Janssen.