[Discussion] CFP: Celebrity Culture (9/1/04; collection)

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Celebrity Culture
                         Su Holmes and Sean Redmond




Celebrity Culture will  represent a significant intervention in the
field on a number of different levels. Essentially, what we are
proposing here is a book which brings together approaches to stardom and
celebrity which range across historical periods, media forms and
national contexts - as well as disciplinary borders and modes of enquiry
(film, television, music, sport, Internet, print media).  The book aims
to bring together a broad range of essays which address the
contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today?s fame
culture.

Proposals can be historical or contemporary and may explore (but are not
limited to) the following areas:

=B7     Discussions of star/ celebrity theory (critique/ revisitation/
development)
=B7     Analyses of historical shifts in fame
=B7     The impact of ?new? media technologies on celebrity construction =
/
consumption (digital technologies, internet, cyberspace)
=B7     Celebrity journalism/ magazines
=B7     Celebrity and Reality TV
=B7     Celebrity fandom/ fan cultures / subcultures
=B7     Celebrity and issues of gender/ sexuality/ ethnicity/ class /
national identity
=B7     Celebrity ?branding? / promotion
=B7     Celebrity and politics/ politicians


Addressed to susan.holmes@solent.ac.uk, sean.Redmond@solent.ac.uk,
proposals should be approximately 300-400 words, and include a brief
biographical note and contact details. Deadline October1st 2004.

Su Holmes is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at
Southampton Institute, UK. She is the co-editor of Understanding Reality
TV (Routledge, 2004) and author of British Television and Film Culture
in the 1950s: Coming to a TV Near You! (Intellect, 2005).

Sean Redmond is Principal Lecturer at Southampton Institute, UK. He is
the co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor
(Wallflower, 2003), editor of Liquid Metal: the Science Fiction Film
Reader (Wallflower, 2004), and  author of Studying Chunking Express
(Auteur Press, 2004).


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