Celebrity Audiences
The study of audience relations with star/celebrity culture has often been marginalised in star/celebrity studies. This book brings together new research that explores a range of audience encounters with celebrities, moving across social media, royal weddings and national identity to questions of age, gender and class. In doing so, the essays illuminate the complex and negotiated nature of audience investments in celebrity culture, collectively questioning the often simplistic and dismissive judgements that are made about audience/celebrity relationships in this regard. This book provides a dedicated space to showcase a range of current work in the field, seeking to both consolidate and stimulate what is a vibrant and crucial aspect of studying celebrity culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of Celebrity Studies.
Su Holmes is a Reader in Television at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of several books on British television, and co-editor of books including In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011) and Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing (2015).
Sarah Ralph is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Northumbria University, UK. She has published in Celebrity Studies, Participations and Critical Studies in Television, and has recently co-authored (with Martin Barker, Kate Egan and Tom Phillips) Alien Audiences: Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie (2015), a book based on an international audience study of Ridley Scotts 1979 film, Alien.
Martin Barker is an Emeritus Professor at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the World Hobbit project, exploring audience reactions around the world to Peter Jacksons films, as part of a larger exploration of the role of fantasy in the lives of audiences.
Celebrity Audiences
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Su Holmes, Sarah Ralph and Martin Barker
First published 2016
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Contents
| Su Holmes, Sarah Ralph and Martin Barker |
| Andreas Widholm and Karin Becker |
| Sarah Ralph |
| Ana Jorge |
| Sofia Johansson |
| Tom Phillips |
| Amanda K. Kehrberg |
| Su Holmes, Sarah Ralph and Sean Redmond |
The chapters in this book were originally published in Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Audiences for stardom and celebrity
Su Holmes, Sarah Ralph and Martin Barker
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 15
Celebrating with the celebrities: television in public space during two royal weddings
Andreas Widholm and Karin Becker
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 622
Using stars, not just reading them: the roles and functions of film stars in motherdaughter relations
Sarah Ralph
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 2338
Cristiano Ronaldo is cheap chic, Twilight actors are special: young audiences of celebrities, class and locality
Ana Jorge
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 3953
Celebrity culture and audiences: a Swedish case study
Sofia Johansson
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 5468
Wrestling with grief: fan negotiation of professional/private personas in responses to the Chris Benoit double murdersuicide
Tom Phillips
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 6984
I love you, please notice me: the hierarchical rhetoric of Twitter fandom
Amanda K. Kehrberg
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 8599
Swivelling the spotlight: stardom, celebrity and me
Su Holmes, Sarah Ralph and Sean Redmond
Celebrity Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (March 2015) pp. 100117
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Martin Barker is an Emeritus Professor at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the World Hobbit project, exploring audience reactions around the world to Peter Jacksons films, as part of a larger exploration of the role of fantasy in the lives of audiences.
Karin Becker is a Professor Emerita, Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research examines cultural histories and contemporary contexts of visual media practices, currently focusing on media in public space. She directs the Nordic Network of Digital Visuality and Changing Places, a research project sponsored by the Swedish Research Council, examining global and local events as mediated through public and private screens.
Su Holmes is a Reader in Television at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of several books on British television, and co-editor of books including In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011) and Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing (2015).
Sofia Johansson is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Sdertrn University, Sweden, with a PhD from the Communication and Media Research Centre at the University of Westminster, UK. Her research interests centre on media audiences and popular culture, with current projects examining music and social media use, as well as celebrity culture in Sweden.
Ana Jorge is a media and communications postdoctoral researcher, with a grant from the National Foundation for Science and Technology, and invited Assistant Professor at University NOVA of Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a PhD in communication sciences from the same university, with a thesis on young audiences and fans of celebrity culture, concluded in 2012.
