[ecrea] CFP: Going Cheap?: Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres

>School of Film and Television Studies
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich, UK
>June 25, 2008
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>This one-day event sponsored by the School of Film and Television Studies
>will examine how discourses of tabloidism, reality, and scandal shape
>the
>construction of female celebrity in contemporary and historical periods.
>It originates with the broadly-felt sense that female celebrity (at least
>of a certain kind) is seen to be depreciating in value and it asks why
>this might be the case.  While work on stardom/ celebrity has acknowledged
>the existence of hierarchies of fame, surprisingly little attention has
>been paid to how such hierarchies are gendered. We will explore whether
>such hierarchies have intensified of late and the factors which are
>shaping this process, while also reflecting on how this shift might
>constitute a challenge for the next wave of scholarship on
>stardom/celebrity.
>
>Questions include, but are not limited to: Is the perceived uncoupling of
>talent from fame in fact a particularly gendered phenomenon?  Is it
>postfeminist? How do new delivery systems such as YouTube and older ones
>like celebrity magazines favor and foster the spectacle of female train
>wreck celebrity? What kinds of narratives about wealth and class do these
>female celebrities anchor and how do they uphold or challenge
>nationalized/regionalized archetypes of the chav or white trash? How
>do the scandals in which they so often figure differ from those of some
>male celebrities (as was amply demonstrated in 2007 when a comparative
>dignity and respectful distance was accorded by a variety of media outlets
>after Owen Wilsons suicide attempt)? What contemporary views about female
>sexuality are inscribed onto the bodies of these celebrities?  What drives
>the fascination/repulsion for bad women/girls (Britney Spears, Lindsay
>Lohan, Paris Hilton, Rosie ODonnell, Amy  Winehouse, Charlotte Church,
>Jade Goody) in todays celebrity culture and what are the historical
>precedents for this?  Related and proximate topics including divadom,
>celebrity feuds, the toxic celebrity couple, and the potential
>reinforcement of age-old cultural prohibitions on attention-seeking as
>unfeminine will also factor in symposium discussions.
>
>We are accepting a limited number of papers for this event. To propose a
>paper, please send a 300 word abstract and short biographical note by
>March 15 to both Professor Diane Negra ((d.negra /at/ uea.ac.uk)) and Dr. Su
>Holmes ((susan.holmes /at/ uea.ac.uk)) in the School of Film and Television
>Studies at UEA.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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