Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies, as well as those interested in digital culture more widely.
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction Chapter 1. The television personality system Part 1: TV must train its own stars: The invention of the television personality Chapter 2. An irreconcilable opposition: Music hall, radio and the emergence of televisual skill Chapter 3. Too much glamour?: Glamour, gender and in-vision announcers Part 2: Oooh, Im an entertainer ... its what I do: Political economy, performance and pleasure Chapter 4. You dont know anyone ... : The political economy of television fame Chapter 5. The art of being yourself: Pleasure, meaning and achievement in performance Part 3: The television personality system revisited: Ideology, multiplatform and DIY fame Chapter 6. Just an ordinary bloke: National identity and ideology Chapter 7. Get Internet famous! (Even if youre nobody): Multiplatform fame and the television personality system in the digital era Conclusion Bibliography Index
Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture.
Television Personalities is going to be one of the defining texts in the fields of television, and celebrit
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