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In the Limelight and Under the Microscope

By Diane Negra

In the Limelight and Under the Microscope

By Diane Negra

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This timely collection explores the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary and historical media contexts. Amidst concerns about the apparent 'decline' in the currency of modern fame ('famous for being famous'), as well as debates about the shifting parameters of public/private visibility, it is female celebrities who are positioned as the most active discursive terrain.
This collection seeks to interrogate such phenomena by forging a greater conceptual, theoretical and historical dialogue between celebrity studies and critical gender studies. It takes as its starting point the understanding that female celebrity is a particularly fraught cultural phenomenon with ideological and industrial implications that warrant careful scrutiny. In moving across case studies from the 19th century to the present day, this book works from the assumption that the case study should play a crucial role in generating debate about the dialogue between 'past' and 'present', and the individual essays seek to reflect this spirit of enquiry
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2011-03-17
Publication Date:
2011-03-17
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0826438555
ISBN13:
9780826438553
Weight:
510 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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