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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"celebrity studies"”.
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The Construction of Tang Wei as a Star in contemporary China: Performance, Context, Reception and Politics
… by Western theoretical discourses about star studies, it hopes to contribute to the growing scholarly terrain of celebrity studies and Chinese culture studies. Based on Richard Dyer?s (1979) ?sociological-semiotic? approach , I will also draw on the relevant theoretical discourses in the field …
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
… Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (a contemporary singer-celebrity, songwriter, and producer), this study re-imagines the archive of Black singer-celebrities by centering Black women’s performances and voices to illuminate the diverse, nuanced representations of resistance and empowerment that Black women …
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"by the way i'm gay": a rhetorical analysis of celebrity coming out
… narratives represent a fascinating shift between celebrity discourse and LGBTQ identity. The ‘coming out’ of celebrity raises both questions as to how the media constructs LGBTQ and subjectivity identity, and broader concerns related to the composition of power, hegemony, and ideology through …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… abstract ideas of truth and reason. The celebrity scientists base their authority on their scientific credentials, achieve public appeal through popularisation, particularly publishing popular science books, and speak in general culture on behalf of science. The subjects, to varying …
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Acting Alone: Solo Female Performers, Their American Audiences, and Embodiment
… and self-help manuals--as performances of the celebrity self. In each case, they were well aware of how their publics perceived them, so they used their performances and their writing to intervene in the ever-growing public discourses of magazines, newspapers, and newsreels. Their acts and …
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The Rise of the Cybercelebrity: Understanding celebrity production and the construction of authenticity on YouTube using YouTube Gamer Mini Ladd
… YouTubers are redefining current definitions of celebrity by re-introducing the term ‘cybercelebrity’(see Edwards and Jeffreys, 2010) to specifically describe anyone who is “Internet famous” (Tanz, 2008). It also outlines branding elements and monetisation strategies used by cybercelebrities in …