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[Commlist] New Book: Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formation
Sat Jan 05 17:47:51 GMT 2019
"Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity
Formation" edited by Spring-Serenity Duvall.
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64433?format=HC
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity
Formation makes an examination of contemporary celebrity culture with an
emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured, how fan communities
are cultivated, and how young audiences consume and aspire to fame. This
book foregrounds considerations of diversity within celebrity and fan
cultures, and takes an international perspective on the production of
stardom. Chapters include interviews with professional athletes in the
United States about their experiences with stardom after coming out as
gay, and interviews with young people in Europe about their consumption
of celebrity and aspirations of achieving fame via social media. Other
chapters include interviews with young Canadian women that illuminate
the potential influence of famous feminists on audience political
engagement, and critical analysis of media narratives about race,
happiness, cultural appropriation, and popular feminisms. The current
anthology brings together scholarship from Canada, the United States,
Spain, Belgium, and Portugal to demonstrate the pervasive reach of
global celebrity, as well as the commonality of youth experiences with
celebrity in diverse cultural settings.
Reviews:
Offering both intersectional and international
perspectives on young people and contemporary celebrity
culture, /Celebrity & Youth/ is a rich contribution to the
fields of celebrity studies, youth studies, and media
studies. The chapters collected here are sure to expand
our critical understanding of not only young celebrities
but also how young people engage with fame as they
explore, fashion, and perform their own identities.
~ *Mary Celeste Kearney*, Director of Gender Studies and
Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at
the University of Notre Dame
/Celebrity and Youth/ is an outstanding contribution to
the growing literature on how conceptions of youth play a
central role in the production, circulation and reception
of celebrity culture. Taking the reader through various
interconnecting strands of analysis including the
construction of young star images, the manufacture of
youth as a desirable and desiring subjectivity, and the
ebbing agency that is found within and across fan
communities, this volume places young people at the heart
of why and how celebrity matters. With fascinating case
studies that take us from the schools of Flanders to the
vlogs of Portuguese micro-celebrities, from the creativity
of One Direction girl fan practices to the ‘come of age’
fans of Emma Watson, and from the colorblind politics of
Kendall Jenner to the First Children status of the Obama
daughters, we find the most brilliant forms of empirical,
cultural, and contextual scholarship in interaction. Why
do young people want to be famous? Read this excellent,
timely volume for the complex answers we need.
~ *Sean Redmond*, Editor of Celebrity Studies Journal and
Professor of Screen and Design, Deakin University
Celebrity and Youth offers a much-needed interdisciplinary
examination of the ways in which celebrity and its
relationship to youth and identity are both understood and
reconfigured in a digital age. This collection deftly
illuminates how the construction and production of
cultural identity is so influenced by celebrity. Duvall
presents a wide range of essays which offer deeply
insightful contemporary analyses of the perspectives of
young people as they navigate an increasingly complex
celebrity culture.
~ *Kirsty Fairclough*, Associate Dean: Research and
Innovation School of Arts and Media University of Salford
Table of Contents:
Introduction
/By Spring-Serenity Duvall/
Chapter 1: Social Media Celebrities as Salient Resource
for Preteens’ Identity Work
/By Annebeth Bels and Hilde Van den Bulck/
Chapter 2: /WTF/: Digital ambassadors for the young
generation?
/By Ana Jorge and Thays Nunes/
Chapter 3: “INSANE PREGNANCY PRANK ON BOYFRIEND!”
Performing gender, domestic assault, and sexism via
couple’s prank videos on YouTube
/By Jessica Birthisel/
Chapter 4: Adolescents as cultural activists: Remixing
celebrities in fandom communities
/By Pilar Lacasa, Julián de la Fuente, Sara Cortés, María
Ruth García-Pernía/
Chapter 5: Out in Play: Openly Gay Male Athletes Navigate
Media, Celebrity, and Fandom
/By Leigh Moscowitz and Andrew C. Billings/
Chapter 6: Believing in Emma Watson: Casual Fandom and
Emerging Feminism in Audience Support for the United
Nations #HeForShe Campaign
/By Spring-Serenity Duvall/
Chapter 7: Under Western (Girls’) Eyes: Cultural
Appropriation and Feminism in the Celebrity Fashion of
Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid
/By Jessica E. Johnston/
Chapter 8: All-American Girls: Examining the Media
Coverage of Malia and Sasha Obama as Young Political
Celebrities
/By Newly Paul/
Chapter 9: Getting “Out of the Woods” and Coming “Clean”:
Narrating Happiness in the Music and Celebrity of Taylor
Swift
/By Maghan Molloy Jackson/
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