Research Catalog

Title

(Extra)ordinary? : the concept of authenticity in celebrity and fan studies / edited by Jade Alexander, Katarzyna Bronk.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alexander, Jade
• Bronk, Katarzyna

Description

viii, 136 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Questioning what 'makes' a celebrity and how celebrity is controlled, dispersed and received are aspects branching out of (Extra)ordinary?'s debate over celebrities as ordinary/extraordinary. Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk, together with the authors whose chapters make up this inter-disciplinary discussion, not only utilise the existing research on celebrity and fandom, but they also go beyond the often-quoted theorists to engage in multidirectional analyses of what it means to be a celebrity, and what influence they have on the consuming public. The present book provides an avenue for exploring not just what celebrity is as a discursive construction, but also how this involves a complex interplay between celebrities, the media and the audience."--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

At the interface/probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; volume 101

Uniform Title

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 101.

Subject

• Fame
• Fans (Persons)
• Authenticity (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Constructing Celebrity -- 1."The Big Fellow Is Dead!": Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist Martyr / Amber Anna Colvin -- 2.Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in Fame / Samita Nandy -- 3.Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform / Sandra Mayer -- pt. 2 (Re)Envisioning Stardom -- 4.Oscar Wilde's Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modem Culture / Anna Fomichenko -- 5.Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney's Roller Derby Scene / Jade Alexander -- 6.Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of "High" and "Low" Cultures / Mira Moshe.

Call Number

JFE 19-22

ISBN

• 9789004366589
• 900436658X

LCCN

2018016197

OCLC

1031437136

Title

(Extra)ordinary? : the concept of authenticity in celebrity and fan studies / edited by Jade Alexander, Katarzyna Bronk.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

At the interface/probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; volume 101

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 101.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Alexander, Jade, editor.

Bronk, Katarzyna, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: (Extra)ordinary? Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004366954 (DLC) 2018028594

Research Call Number

JFE 19-22