The performance of celebrity : : creating, maintaining and controlling fame / / edited by Amber Anna Colvin.
In recent years the study of celebrity, of what constitutes fame, and how that fame is controlled and performed, has become an area of intense scholarly interest. This is due in part to the increased emphasis on social and cultural history and the presence of new and innovative sources, both of whic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Oscar Wilde’s Celebrity: Public Persona as a Character / Anna Fomichenko
- Fame and Nation: National Identity of Pop Star Justin Bieber / Samita Nandy
- ‘Ireland’s Sorrow’: Michael Collins, Celebrity and Nationalist Discourse in Irish and British Newspapers
- ‘It’s Not Breeding That Kind of “I’m an Athlete” Arrogance’: Roller Derby and the Construction of Local Celebrities / Jade McDonald
- The Israel Celebs Awards: A Critical Analysis / Mira Moshe
- The Emergence of the ‘Starchitect’ Category / Andrzej Klimek
- En-Nobeling Literary Celebrity: Authorial Self-Fashioning in the Nobel Lectures of Elfriede Jelinek and Harold Pinter / Sandra Mayer.