Celebrity: Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studieswill introduce students to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity. There is an imagined relational trajectory that the book intends to navigate. While each chapter will stand as a coherent block of knowledge, analysis and appreciation, conversations and connections will also be foregrounded, and ‘echo’ summaries will enable the reader to follow the connections in the arguments that are made. The book builds a critical story about celebrity that takes in image production, branding and marketing, the political economy of celebrity, celebrity in the everyday, identity politics, structures of feeling and narratives of damage, and celebrity in relation to resistant strategies and energies. Topical, current and popular examples will be utilised to bring the material alive for the reader.
This book explores how entertainers who participate in the political process understand leadership and their role as leaders.
Provides the addresses of movie stars, athletes, clubs, organizations, publications, musicians, and kid-related businesses and products.
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Veteran journalist and broadcaster Leigh Hatcher presents an absorbing range of stories, issues and insights from his national Sunday night radio talk program, Open House.
one sent the children off to play , or covered their eyes : the chance to see an artist like Sally Rand was like an opportunity to see Sarah Bernhardt or Isadora Duncan in the flesh . ( Literally . ) Rand — who maintained her svelte ...
Presents a compilation of predictions for the new millennium from more than two hundred celebrities, sports stars, and politicians, such as Archbishop Tutu, Hugh Hefner, The Dalai Lama, Chuck Yeager, Nadia Comaneci, and many others.
Others who kindly assisted on the research trail and with advice included Brian O'Connell, John O'Dea, Noel Crowley, Dermot McMahon, Tony and Shane Mulvey, Pat Cotter, Nicola Fahey, Louis McRedmond, Colum Flynn, John Madden, ...
Jackie Kennedy Onassis: ein leidenschaftliches Leben
Global superstar Leona Lewis tells her story for the first time in this stunning illustrated autobiography.
An autobiography by the original "shock jock" shares his observations on politics, current affairs, women, and the entertainment business