Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies

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Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Theories and Concepts of Celebrity -- 1 Celebrity and contemporary culture: A critical analysis of some theoretical accounts -- Situating celebrity and the rise of celebrity studies -- Celebrity in the frame of globalization, or the cultural logics of fame -- Celebrity culture, self-identity and reinvention -- References -- 2 Celebrity's histories -- Introduction -- The Graphic Revolution: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The Enlightenment and Romanticism: 1750–1850 -- Eighteenth-century print and visual culture -- The theatricalization of society -- A new kind of self -- The feminization of fame -- Early modernity, after the printing press and the Reformation -- Early modern print and visual culture -- Subjectivity, authenticity and the performance of the self -- Theatre, power, market -- If celebrities are like saints, saints are like celebrities -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Celebrity in the contemporary era -- Some major themes in contemporary celebrity studies -- Emerging themes in the twenty-first century -- Concluding comments: new frontiers -- References -- 4 Postmodern theories of celebrity -- Introduction: classic ideas, contemporary celebrity culture -- Revisiting postmodernism -- Postmodernism, fame and media -- Postmodern celebrity identities revisited -- Brand Kardashian and postmodern commodified celebrity -- Conclusion: postmodernism on E! -- References -- 5 Cultural studies and the politics of celebrity: From powerless elite to celebristardom -- Historical and intellectual development of the field -- Contemporary views on the powerless elite -- Ideology recalibrated -- Enter reflexivity as legitimation -- Hollywood and reflexivity