Marshall P. David - A Companion to Celebrity

Edited by

P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond

This edition first published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to celebrity / edited by P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-118-47501-0 (cloth)
1. FameSocial aspects. 2. Celebrities. 3. Celebrities in mass media. 4. Mass mediaSocial aspects. 5. Mass media and publicity. 6. Mass media and culture. I. Marshall, P. David. II. Redmond, Sean, 1967
BJ1470.5.C66 2015
305.52dc23

2015017679

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Cover image: Ellen DeGeneres poses for a selfie taken by Bradley Cooper with (clockwise from L-R) Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o, Angelina Jolie, Peter Nyong'o Jr. and Bradley Cooper during the 86th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo: Ellen DeGeneres/Twitter via Getty Images)

David Marshall:

To my loving wife Sally

Sean Redmond:

Chow Mo-wan: In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to shareyou know what they did?

Ah Ping: I have no idea.

Chow Mo-wan: They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud and left the secret there forever.

From In the Mood for Love (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

To my beautiful starry eyed children, Josh, Caitlin, Erin, Dylan and Cael

David L. Andrews is a Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. He has published widely on themes related to the cultural politics of sport and physical culture.

Ellis Cashmore is the author of Celebrity Culture, Tyson: Nurture of the Beast, Beckham, and Martin Scorsese's America. He has held positions in sociology at the universities of Hong Kong; Tampa, Florida; Aston (UK); and Staffordshire (UK).

Toija Cinque is a Senior Lecturer in media and communications at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her works include Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (2015), the co-written Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life (2nd edition, 2015), and Enchanting David Bowie (2015) with Sean Redmond and Chris Moore. She edits New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences.

Andrew F. Cooper is Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, in Ontario. In 2009 he was a Fulbright Research Chair, Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California. Among his books as co-editor is the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (2013), and as author, Celebrity Diplomacy (2008) and Diplomatic Afterlives (2014).

Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and the author or editor of 11 books, including Ethics of Media (2013), Media, Society, World (2012) and Why Voice Matters (2010).

Olivier Driessens is a Fellow in the Media and Communications Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include promotional culture, celebrity culture, and mediatization studies. His work has been published in journals such as Theory and Society, Media, Culture and Society, and Celebrity Studies.

Kerry O. Ferris, Associate Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University, is working toward an empirically grounded sociology of celebrity using ethnographic methods and a symbolic interactionist approach. Past studies have included analyses of fancelebrity relations, celebrity sightings, celebrity stalking, red-carpet celebrity interviews, and the work lives of professional celebrity impersonators.

Loren Glass is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. His books include Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States (2004), Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde (2013), and, with Charles Williams, Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism (2011).

Tamara Heaney is a PhD candidate and research assistant at Deakin University, Australia. Her research investigates the role of celebrity in the lives of women in their forties. She is also interested in the representation of women in popular culture, feminist scholarship, and female aging.

Alison Hearn is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Joke Hermes is Professor of Media, Culture and Society at Inholland University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. As audience researcher she is interested in everyday media use, feminism, and popular culture. She is one of the founding editors of the