Companion to Celebrity
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Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies.
- Offers a detailed, systematic, and clear presentation of all aspects of celebrity studies, with a structure that carefully build its enquiry
- Draws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity analyses
- Presents new and provocative ways of exploring celebrity’s meanings and textures
- Considers the revolutionary ways in which new social media have impacted on the production and consumption of celebrity
P. David Marshall is Professor of New Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at Deakin University. He is the author of Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture (1997, 2014), co-author of Persona Studies(2015). Fame Games (2000), and editor of the Celebrity Culture Reader(2006) among many other books, book chapters and articles on new media, fame and popular culture.
Sean Redmond is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. He is the editor of Celebrity Studies, Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (2006), Stardom and Celebrity: the Reader (2008), and the author of Celebrity and the Media (2014).