Television personalities
Subtitle: stardom and the small screen
By: James Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780415481885; 9780415481892; 9780203842683
Subjects: Television broadcasting; Television personalities; Fame
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([206]-215] and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The television personality system. TV must train its own stars : the invention of the television personality; title: An "irreconcilable opposition" : music hall, radio and the emergence of televisual skill; title: "Too much glamour"? : glamour, gender and "in-vision" announcers; title: "Oooh, I'm an entertainer; title: it's what I do" : political economy, performance and pleasure. "You don't know anyone ..."? : the political economy of television fame; title: The art of "being yourself" : pleasure, meaning and achievement in performance; title: The television personality system revisited : ideology, multiplatform and DIY fame. Just "an ordinary bloke" : national identity and ideology; title: Get Internet famous! (even if you're nobody) : multiplatform fame and the television personality system in the digital era; title: Conclusion.