How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own: Understanding the Impact on Americans Public and Private Lives [Hardcover]

Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors discuss Brad Pitt's rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina, Angelina Jolie's recent casting controversy, and Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest. Star brand building through social media and how that translates to the Broadway stage are also examined, as well as how the privacy laws demanded by celebrities can infringe on their own audience's First Amendment rights.Carol M. Madere is endowed professor in humanities at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Chapter 1: Life, Death and the Stars

Chapter 2: Looking to the Starchitects: The Rhetorical Mode of Celebrity in Disaster Recovery

Chapter 3: Star Brand Power and the Broadway Stage: Images, and Attributes
Influencing Perceptions

Chapter 4: Save Your Life! Do What I Post!: Social Learning through Celebrity Health Advocacy on Social Media

Chapter 5: I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One On TV : Bad Celebrity Health Advice and Why We Follow It

Chapter 6: Hunger Games for Orphans?: Angelina Jolie and the Limits of Celebrity Humanitarianism

Chapter 7: Colin Kaepernick, Civil Disobedience and Self-Sacrificial Leadership

Chapter 8: Celebrity Suicide: How Responsible Reporting Prevents Further Tragedy

Chapter 9: The Naked Truth: Postfeminism in Media Discourse in Response to the Kardashians Nude Magazine Images

Chapter 10: How to Be a Postfeminist: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Celebrity Culture, Sexual Messages, and Feminism in Amber Roses How to Be a Bad Bitch

Chapter 11: Sex, Likes and Instagram: Celebrity Self Presentation on Instagram

Chapter 12: Celebrities and the First Amendment