Celebrity, (4 Volume Set)

In recent years, the study of celebrity has developed and cohered into a flourishing field of social and cultural analysis. There is huge interest in topics such as the politics and logic of glamour; the role of the public-relations industry in manipulating television audiences; the relationship between fame and social control; and the economics of the so-called celebrity industry. And as interest in celebrity continues to explode, a variety of forerunners to its study - drawing on materials from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies, history, psychology, organization studies, politics, film, and literary studies - have been rediscovered and reformulated. Among the lines of enquiry and critical tools that have been recuperated as pertinent to the study of celebrity are leadership, charisma, role models, heroes, role sets, ideology, manipulation, commodification, interpellation, narcissism, signification and individuality.

The sheer scale of the available research exploring the many implications of the phenomenon of celebrity - and the breadth and complexity of the canon on which celebrity studies draws - makes this new Major Work from Routledge especially timely. It answers the urgent need for a wide-ranging collection which provides easy access to the key items of scholarly literature, material that is often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. In four volumes, Celebrity brings together the best and most influential foundational and cutting-edge research on: the aetiology and basic concepts of celebrity (including charisma, narcissism, and commodification); theoretical and methodological approaches (e.g. Marxism, structuralism, semiotics, and cultural materialism); the mechanics of celebrity (such as the sociology and psychology of showmanship); and key controversies and current debates (e.g. the politics of stardom; the superstructure of celebrity; and the interpellation of celebrity news and the media).

Celebrity is supplemented with a full index, and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.

Volume I : Origins and Historical Counterpoints

Part 1 : Ancient Roots and Controversies
Chapter 1 : Augustus’ Conception of Himself’, Thought, 1980
Chapter 2 : Ruler-ApoTheosis in Ancient Rome’, Numismatic Chronicle, 1947
Chapter 3 : The Saint as Exemplar in Late Antiquity’, Representations, 1983
Chapter 4 : The Portrait of Christ : Its Origin and Evolution’, History Today, 1971

Part 2 : Modernity and Celebrity
Chapter 5 : The Formation of Napoleon’s Personality’, French Historical Studies, 1971
Chapter 6 : Lord Byron and The End of Fame’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2008
Chapter 7 : The Celebrity Economy of Victorian Studies’, Victorian Studies, 1993
Chapter 8 : Historicizing and Gendering Celebrity Culture; Famous Women in 19th-Century France’, Journal of Women’s History, 2004
Chapter 9 : From Epitaph to Obituary : Death and Celebrity in 18th-Century British Culture’, International Review of Cultural Studies, 2008
Chapter 10 : B : Franklin’s Epitaph’, New Colophon, 1950
Chapter 11 : Picturing Tragedy : Mrs Siddons as The Tragic Muse Revisited’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1973
Chapter 12 : Brushes with Fame : Thackeray and The Work of Celebrity’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2001
Chapter 13 : Signs of Intimacy : The Literary Celebrity in The "Age of Interviewing"’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 1977
Chapter 14 : John Dewey’s American Democrat’, Daedulus, 1979
Chapter 15 : Spreading The Gospel of Self Help : G : A : Henty, and Samuel Smiles’, Journal of Popular Culture, 1982
Chapter 16 : B. F. Keith and The Origins of American Vaudeville’, Theatre Survey, 1980
Chapter 17 : The Marketing of Megalomania’, Journal of Contemporary History, 2006
Chapter 18 : The Heroic Life and Everyday Life’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1992
Chapter 19 : The Originality Paradox’, New Literary History, 1973
Chapter 20 : Leadership in East and West : Some Examples’, Journal of Human Values, 2003

Volume II : Basic Concepts and Key Debates

Part 3 : Basic Concepts
Chapter 21 : Charisma Re-Considered’, Journal of Classical Sociology, 2003
Chapter 22 : The Mass Ornament’, New German Critique, 1975
Chapter 23 : Mass Communications and Para-Social Interaction’, Journal of Psychiatry, 1956
Chapter 24 : Opinions and Social Pressures’, Scientific American, 1955
Chapter 25 : Political Ritual and Social Integration’, Sociology, 1975
Chapter 26 : Narcissism and Vanity’, Social Theory and Practice, 1982
Chapter 27 : Being Yourself : The Pursuit of AuThentic Celebrity’, Discourse Studies, 2001
Chapter 28 : Phantasmagoric Labor : The New Economics of Self Presentation’, Futures, 1998

Part 4 : Key Debates
Chapter 29 : The Cult of Celebrity’, New Formations, 1999
Chapter 30 : The Culture of Celebrity’, Dissent, Summer 1998
Chapter 31 : The Assembly Line of Greatness’, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1992
Chapter 32 : Celebrity and The Media’, Australian Journal of Communication, 1999
Chapter 33 : The Star’s Image, Victimization and Celebrity Culture’, Punishment & Society, 2004
Chapter 34 : Why Do Adolescent Girls Idolize Male Celebrities?’, Journal of Adolescent Research, 2005
Chapter 35 : Media Celebrities and Social Influence’, Mass Communications and Society, 2002
Chapter 36 : Why The Self is Empty’, American Psychologist, 1995
Chapter 37 : Conceptualization and Measurement of Celebrity Worship’, British Journal of Psychology, 2003
Chapter 38 : Stardom, Celebrity and The Para-Confession’, Social Semiotics, 2008
Chapter 39 : The Cyberstar’, Screen, 2000
Chapter 40 : The Masses : The Implosion of The Social in The Media’, New Literary History, 1985
Chapter 41 : TV, Ideology and Emancipatory Popular Culture’, Socialist Review, 1979
Chapter 42 : The Democratic Elite : America’s Movie Stars’, Qualitative Sociology, 1989
Chapter 43 : Compensatory Sports Heroes’, Journal of Popular Culture, 1983
Chapter 44 : The Gloried Self’, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1989

Volume III : The Interdisciplinary Matrix

Part 5 : History
Chapter 45 : The Kingdom’s Two Bodies’, French History, 2007
Chapter 46 : Print The Legend : John Wayne and Postwar Culture’, Reviews in American History, 2000

Part 6 : Anthropology
Chapter 47 : Charisma’s Realm : Fandom in Japan’, Ethnology, 1997
Chapter 48 : Spirit Possession and Deprivation Cults’, Man, 1966

Part 7 : Sociology
Chapter 49 : Charisma, Order and Status’, American Sociological Review, 1965
Chapter 50 : Biographical Boundaries : Sociology and Marilyn Monroe’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1985

Part 8 : Psychology
Chapter 51 : Extreme Celebrity Worship, Fantasy Proneness and Disassociation’, Personality and Individual Differences, 2006
Chapter 52 : The Shalt Worship No OTher Gods’, Personality and Individual Differences, 2002

Part 9 : Political Science
Chapter 53 : Celebrity Politicians’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2004
Chapter 54 : Frank Sinatra : The Popular Front and an American Icon’, Science & Society, 2002

Part 10 : Cultural Studies
Chapter 55 : British Identity and "The People’s Princess", Sociological Review, 2000
Chapter 56 : The Mass Production of Celebrity’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006

Part 11 : Economics
Chapter 57 : The Economics of Superstars’, American Economic Review, 1981
Chapter 58 : The Economic Worth of Celebrity Endorsers’, Journal of Marketing, 1995

Part 12 : Media and Communication Studies
Chapter 59 : Television’s "Personality" System’, Media, Culture & Society, 1981
Chapter 60 : Admirer-Celebrity Relationships Among Young Adults’, Human Communications Research, 2001

Part 13 : Film Studies
Chapter 61 : Identification as a Mediator in Celebrity Effects’, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1967
Chapter 62 : Don’t Look Now’, Screen, 1982

Part 14 : Legal Studies
Chapter 63 : Payola in Radio and Television Broadcasting’, Journal of Law and Economics, 1979
Chapter 64 : Foreclosing on Fame : Exploring The Unchartered Boundaries of The Right of Publicity’, NYU Law Review, 2002

Volume IV : Genres and Counter - Genres

Part 15 : Genres : Sport
Chapter 65 : Tiger Woods and The New Racial Order’, Current Sociology, 2007
Chapter 66 : Jordanscapes : A Preliminary Analysis of A Global Popular’, Sociology of Sport Journal, 1996

Part 16 : Film
Chapter 67 : Stardom and Symbolic Degeneracy’, Semiotica, 1992
Chapter 68 : Portrait of a Cult Film Audience’, Journal of Communications, 1981

Part 17 : Television
Chapter 69 : Television, Ontological Security and The Transitional Object’, Media, Culture & Society, 1993
Chapter 70 : Television : Polysemy and Popularity’, Critical Studies in Mass Communications, 1986

Part 18 : Popular Music
Chapter 71 : What Is Popular Music?’, Sociological Review, 1983
Chapter 72 : Flexibility, Post-Fordism and The Music Industries’, Media, Culture & Society, 1996

Part 19 : Audiences
Chapter 73 : Super Bowl : Mythic Spectacle’, Journal of Communications, 1975
Chapter 74 : Off Guard, Unkempt, Unready? Deconstructing Contemporary Celebrity in Heat Magazine’, Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 2005

Part 20 : Counter Genres
Chapter 75 : The Kray Fascination’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1997
Chapter 76 : Is Elvis God?’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 1998
Chapter 77 : Threatening and OTherwise : Inappropriate Letters to Hollywood Celebrities’, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1991
Chapter 78 : Constructing Crime : Culture, Stalking, Celebrity’, Crime, Media and Culture, 2007
Chapter 79 : Celebrity Stalking, Homicide and Suicide’, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2006
Chapter 80 : Celebrity Culture and Public Connection’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2007
Chapter 81 : Loneliness, Para-Social Interaction and Local Television News Viewing’, Human Communication Research, 1985
Chapter 82 : Fault Lines : Catastrophe and Celebrity Culture’, European Studies, 2001
Chapter 83 : Celebrities and Suicide’, American Sociological Review, 1987
Chapter 84 : Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists’, Psychiatry, 1989
Chapter : Making The Most Out of 15 Minutes’, Television & News Media, 2008
Chapter 86 : How Real Can You Get? Recent Developments in "Reality" Television’, European Journal of Communication, 1994
Chapter 87 : Performing The Real : Documentary Diversions’, Television and New Media, 2002
Chapter 88 : Seeing and Being Seen : The Moral Order of Celebrity Sightings’, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2004
Chapter 89 : The Personal, The Political and The Popular’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006
Chapter 90 : Sport Star vs Rock Star in Globalizing Popular Culture’, International Review of Sociology of Sport, 2003
Chapter 91 : The Clinical Management of Stalking’, American Journal of PsychoTherapy, 1997
Chapter 92 : Celebrity Watching’, American Literary History, 2000
Chapter 93 : Youth Violence and The Apocalyptic’, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2002
Chapter 94 : Celebrity Culture’, CQ Researcher, 2005
Chapter 95 : Personalities in The Popular Media, Journalism and Popular Culture
Chapter 96 : Who is The Celebrity Endorser?’, Journal of Consumer Research, 1989
Chapter 97 : The Cult of Celebrity’, London Review of Books
Chapter 98 : The Self Reported Psychological Well-Being of Celebrity Worshippers’, North American Journal of Psychology, 2001
Chapter 99 : The Powerless "Elite", Stardom and Celebrity
Chapter 100 : Articulating Stardom’, Screen, 1985
Chapter 101 : Special Debate, Flowers and Tears : The Death of Diana, Princess of Wales’, Screen, 1998
Chapter 102 : I’m Winning on a Star : The Extraordinary World of Stars in Their Eyes’, Critical Survey, 1995
Chapter 103 : Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen, 1975
Chapter 104 : Subcultures or Neo-Tribes?’, Sociology, 1999
Chapter 105 : What About The Univores? Musical Dislikes and Group-Based Identity Construction Among Americans with Low Levels of Education’, Poetics, 199
Chapter 106 : Subcultures, Scenes or Tribes?’, Journal Youth Studies, 2005
Chapter 107 : Choosing Celebrity Endorsers’, Marketing Management, 1994
Chapter 108 : The Chosen One’, Sports Illustrated, 1996
Chapter 109 : Stardom and Talent’, American Economic Review, 1985
Chapter 110 : Leadership and its Basis in Problems of Social Coordination’, International Political Science Review, 1992
Chapter 111 : Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction’, Psychiatry, 1956
Chapter 112 : Politics and The Pursuit of Fame’, Public Choice, 1997
Chapter 113 : Recognition and Renown’, American Journal of Sociology, 1988
Chapter 114 : Construction and Validation of a Scale to Measure Celebrity Endorsers’, Journal of Advertising, 1990
Chapter 115 : David Beckham as a Historical Moment in The Representation of Masculinity’, Labour History Review, 2004
Chapter 116 : The Celebrity Economy of Cultural Studies’, Victorian Studies, 1993
Chapter 117 : Superstars’, Academe, Jan.–Feb. 1997
Chapter 118 : Celebrity Material : Materialist Feminism and The Culture of Celebrity’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 1994
Chapter 119 : Fans : Exploring Expressed Motivations for Contacting Celebrities’, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1995
Chapter 120 : The Music Industry and The "Cultural Imperialism" Thesis’, Media, Culture & Society, 1985
Chapter 121 : The Triumph of Mass Idols’, Literature, Popular Culture and Society
Chapter 122 : Cult of Distraction’, New German Critique, 1987
Chapter 123 : Pop Music in The USSR’, Media, Culture & Society, 1986