Title: Framing celebrity : new directions in celebrity culture /
Authors: Holmes, Su; Redmond, Sean, 1967-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Popular culture United States; Celebrities in mass media.; Mass media Social aspects United States
Abstract: From 'The Simpsons' and Heat, to Sarah Jessica Parker and *NSYNC, this work analyses fame, and presents essays, which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts.
Contents: Introduction: understanding celebrity culture / Su Holmes and Sean Redmond Section -- Fame Now -- Introduction / Su Holmes and Sean Redmond -- Intimate fame everywhere / Sean Redmond -- It's a jungle out there!: playing the game of fame in celebrity reality TV / Su Holmes -- 'Bringing out the * [star] in you': SJP, Carrie Bradshaw and the evolution of television stardom / Deborah Jermyn -- 'I'm a celebrity, get me into politics': the political celebrity and the celebrity politician / Philip Drake and Michel Higgins -- Not just another powerless elite?: when media fans become subcultural celebrities / Matt Hills -- Fame Body -- Introduction / Su Holmes and Sean Redmond -- Spectacular male bodies and jazz age celebrity culture / David Magill -- Seeing is believing: constructions of stardom and the gay porn star in U.S. gay video pornography / John Mercer -- Celebrity skins: the illicit textuality of the celebrity nude magazine / Adam Knee -- Get a famous body: star styles and celebrity gossip in heat magazine / Rebecca Feasey -- 'Droppin' it like It's hot': the sporting body of Serena Williams / Ramona Coleman.