Stardom and celebrity : a reader / 
edited by Sean Redmond  
 - London :  SAGE Publications,  2007. 
 - xiv, 375 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-362) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: what' in a reader? / S. Redmond and S. Holmes -- Star and celebrity culture : theoretical antecedents -- The analysis of fame : understanding stardom -- Fame--remember my name? : histories of stardom and celebrity -- Producing fame : 'Because I'm worth it' -- Made in culture : star and celebrity representations -- Consuming fame/becoming famous : celebrity and its audience.<br/><br/>PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS<br/>The Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max Weber<br/>The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin<br/>The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer<br/>Myth Today - Roland Barthes<br/>"THAT-HAS-BEEN"; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland Barthes<br/>The Ecstasy of Communication - Jean Baudrillard<br/>PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM<br/>The Powerless Elite - Franceso Alberoni<br/>Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars<br/>Stars - Richard Dyer<br/>Heavenly Bodies - Richard Dyer<br/>Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John Ellis<br/>Re-examining Stardom - Christine Geraghty<br/>Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance<br/>From /f003Beyond Control/f001 to In Control - Rebecca Williams<br/>Investigating Barrymore's Feminist Agency//Authorship<br/>PART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITY<br/>The Emergence of the Star System in America - Richard deCordova<br/>The Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua Gamson<br/>Celebrity in Twentith-Century America<br/>'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery' - Su Holmes<br/>Celebrities,'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life<br/>Celebrity and Religion - Chris Rojek<br/>The Dream of Acceptability - Leo Braudy<br/>PART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: 'BECAUSE /f003I'M/f001 WORTH IT'<br/>The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme Turner<br/>Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. Epstein<br/>Who Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip Drake<br/>Celebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo Littler<br/>From the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche Ommundsen<br/>Understanding Literary Celebrity<br/>PART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONS<br/>The Face of Garbo - Roland Barthes<br/>The Whiteness of Stars - Sean Redmond<br/>Looking at Kate Winslet's Unruly White Body<br/>The Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle - Mary C. Beltran<br/>Media Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's "Cross-over Butt"<br/>'Ozzy Worked for those /f003Bleeping/f001 Doors with the Crosses on them' - Lisa Holderman<br/>/f003The Osbournes/f001 as Social Class Narrative<br/>Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves - Mary Flanagan<br/>PART SIX: CONSUMING FAME//BECOMING FAMOUS: CELEBRITY AND ITS AUDIENCE<br/>With Stars in their Eyes - Jackie Stacey<br/>Female Spectators and the Paradoxes of Consumption<br/>A Star is Dead: A Legend is Born - Yiman Wang<br/>Practicing Leslie Cheung's Posthumous Fandom<br/>Doing it For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame - Catherine Lumby<br/>Media Power - Nick Couldry <br/>Some Hidden Dimensions<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1-4129-2321-7 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fame.<br/>Fame--Social aspects.<br/>Celebrities.<br/>Celebrities in mass media.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>920  / RED/S