Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible: 99 (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 99) - Softcover

Jackie Raphael; Celia Lam; Millicent Weber

 
9789004365315: Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible: 99 (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 99)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9004365311 ISBN 13: 9789004365315
Publisher: Brill | Rodopi, 2018

Synopsis

Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible explores the construction of celebrity brands, articulating consumers dependence on the perceived authenticity these brands portray. It examines this authenticity through an exploration of fandom, media representation, branding and celebrity deaths.

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About the Author

Celia Lam, Ph.D. (2011), University of Sydney, is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. She has published on celebrity and fan studies, including Becoming Brands: Celebrity, Activism and Politics (WaterHill, 2017). Jackie Raphael, Ph.D. (2013), Curtin University, is a sessional academic at that university. She has published various papers and books including Becoming Brands: Celebrity, Activism and Politics (2017) and Building Bridges in Celebrity Studies (2016). Millicent Weber, Ph.D. (2016), Monash University, is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her work on publishing and literary culture appears in Convergence and Continuum, and most recently in Publishing Means Business: Australian Perspectives (Monash University Publishing, 2017).

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Publisher
Brill | Rodopi
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004365311
ISBN 13 
9789004365315
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
250