Description:
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
Review Quotes:
"In an informative new reference guide, P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond, together with over 20 international academic contributors, aim to cast (lime)light on the purpose and power of celebrity from the origins of fame to social media and reality television."
--Sarah Powell, Reference Reviews, Vol 30 No 8
"Written by scholars from a variety of disciplines, including political science, social history, film, literary and communication studies, A Companion to Celebrity is a comprehensive and contemporary reference guide for both students and the general reader seeking to make sense of the modern cultural obsession with celebrity."
--Sarah Powell, Reference Reviews, Vol 30 No 8