A Companion to Celebrity [Hardcover]

• Offers a detailed, systematic, and clear presentation of all aspects of celebrity studies, with a structure that carefully build its enquiry
• Draws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity analyses
• Presents new and provocative ways of exploring celebritys meanings and textures
• Considers the revolutionary ways in which new social media have impacted on the production and consumption of celebrity?

Notes on Contributors xiii

Acknowledgments xix

1 Introduction 1
P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond

Part One The Genealogy of Celebrity

Introduction 15
P. David Marshall

2 The Moral Concept of Celebrity: A Very Short History Told as a Sequence of Brief Lives 21
Fred Inglis

3 Brand Names: A Brief History of Literary Celebrity 39
Loren Glass

4 The Changing Face of Celebrity and the Emergence of Motion Picture Stardom 58
Gaylyn Studlar

Part Two The Publics of Celebrity

Introduction 79
Sean Redmond

5 Celebrity, Participation, and the Public 83
Graeme Turner

6 Celebrity, Convergence, and the Fate of Media Institutions 98
Nick Couldry

7 Barack Obama, Media Spectacle, and Celebrity Politics 114