[ecrea] Celebrity and the transnational

> Special issue of Celebrity Studies journal:
>
> CELEBRITY AND THE TRANSNATIONAL
>
> This special issue of the new journal Celebrity Studies will provide 
> a space for discussion about the internationalization of celebrity: 
> including the various movements (or non-movement) of celebrities 
> across borders; the translation of their meanings into different 
> contexts; the different effects of celebrity between countries and 
> cultures; the use of the celebrity to 'aid' trans/national causes 
> (or 'other countries'); and the phenomenon of the 'global star'.
>
> It encourages submissions which are intradisciplinary, which 
> consider 'celebrity' in a historical as well as a contemporary 
> context, and which are creative in their theoretical approach to the 
> power dynamics of the global and the transnational.
>
>  Papers might consider, but are not limited to, the following topics:
>    * Celebrity and diaspora
>    * The cosmopolitan celebrity
>    * Glocalisation and transnational media distribution
>    * Celebrity colonialism and imperial images
>    * Comparative case studies of different national contexts
>    * The limited (or expansive) reach of 'the global star'
>    * Theorising celebrity in relation to the transversal, 
> transcultural and transnational
>    * Pre-celebrity: the cultural travels of historical stars
>    * The routes and flows of global celebrity
>    * Hidden celebrities: lost in translation
>    * Celebrity privilege and transnational charity
>    * Political figures and the fashioning of international fame
>    * Globalised anti-celebrity
>
>
> This edition of Celebrity Studies will be edited by Jo Littler. 
> Please send abstracts and a short bio to Jo Littler 
> <mailto:(j.littler /at/ mdx.ac.uk)>(j.littler /at/ mdx.ac.uk) by 10 January 2010. 
> Full pieces will be be required by 1 August 2010.
>
> About Celebrity Studies
>
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcel
>
> Celebrity Studies is a journal that focuses on the critical 
> exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense 
> of celebrity by drawing upon a range of (inter)disciplinary 
> approaches, media forms, historical periods and national contexts. 
> Celebrity Studies aims to address key issues in the production, 
> circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both 
> contemporary and historical contexts, while functioning as a key 
> site for academic debate about celebrity studies itself.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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