Media Focus: Celebrity

Celebrity

• Writing the celebrity pseudo-autobiography: hauntings in Ellis and Ellroy

  • Continuum
  • Siobhan Lyons

• White stars and orange celebrities: the affective production of whiteness in humorous celebrity-gossip blogs

  • Celebrity Studies
  • Anne Graefer

• Animal celebrities

  • Celebrity Studies
  • David C. Giles

• Star/poverty space: the making of the ‘development celebrity’

  • Celebrity Studies
  • Michael K. Goodman & Christine Barnes

• The celebrity influence: do people really care what they think?

  • Celebrity Studies
  • Valerie R. O’Regan

• Medusa’s stare: celebrity, subjectivity and gender

  • Celebrity Studies
  • Tim Edwards

• Guess who Tiger is having sex with now? Celebrity sex and the framing of the moral high ground

  • Celebrity Studies
  • Hilde Van Den Bulck & Nathalie Claessens

• Nothing less than perfect: female celebrity, ageing and hyper-scrutiny in the gossip industry

  • Celebrity Studies
  • Kirsty Fairclough

• Corey Haim and the ‘homeless celebrity’: rock bottom on Rodeo Drive

  • Celebrity Studies
  • Pansy Duncan

• A Phantasmic Experience: Narrative Connection of Dead Celebrities in Advertisements

  • Culture, Theory and Critique
  • Kasey Clawson Hudak

• Kylie will be ok: On the (im-)possibility of Australian celebrity studies

  • Cultural Studies
  • Frances Bonner

• Stars Behaving Badly: Inequality and transgression in celebrity culture

  • Feminist Media Studies
  • Lieve Gies

• Fiercely Real?: Tyra Banks and the making of new media celebrity

  • Feminist Media Studies
  • Jessalynn Marie Keller

• Not “Simply the Breast”: Media discourses of celebrity, breastfeeding, and normalcy

  • Feminist Media Studies
  • Spring-Serenity Duvall

• “Check On It”: Beyoncé, Southern booty, and Black femininities in music video

  • Feminist Media Studies
  • Aisha Durham

• Opening Pandora’s Box: pleasure, consent and consequence in the production and circulation of celebrity sex videos

  • Porn Studies
  • Philip Hayward & Alison Rahn

• Effects of celebrity involvement on young people’s political and civic engagement

  • Chinese Journal of Communication
  • Nainan Wen & Di Cui

• The Theatricality of Humanitarianism: A Critique of Celebrity Advocacy

  • Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
  • Lilie Chouliaraki

• Gender, Media, and Madness: Reading a Rhetoric of Women in Crisis Through Foucauldian Theory

  • Review of Communication
  • Michaela D. E. Meyer, Amy M. Fallah & Megan M. Wood

• Nudity, celebrity and women abuse: Marie Claire’s 2009 ‘The Naked Issue’ edition

  • Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research
  • Koen Panis & Hilde Van Den Bulck

• Celebrity Suicide and the Search for the Moral High Ground: Comparing Frames in Media and Audience Discussions of the Death of a Flemish Celebrity

  • Critical Studies in Media Communication
  • Hilde Van den Bulck & Nathalie Claessens