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1 online resource (659 pages) |
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text file |
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14: We Love This Trainwreck! |
| Summary |
A timely collection exploring the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary, historical, media and national contexts. |
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"Mrs. Langtry seems to be on the way to a fortune" : the Jersey lily and models of late nineteenth-century fame / Catherine Hindson -- Helen Keller, Hollywood and political celebrity / Abigail Salerno -- Bloody blondes and bobbed-haired bandits : the execution of justice and the construction of the celebrity criminal in the 1920s popular press / April Miller -- Rocket scientist! : the posthumous celebrity of Hedy Lamarr / Ruth Barton -- Grotesquerie as marker of success in aging female stars / Anne Morey -- "I'm like a kaleidoscope" : Mia Farrow and the shifting prismatics of modern femininity in the 1960s / Leslie H. Abramson -- Girls imagining careers in the limelight : social class, gender and fantasies of "success" / Kim Allen -- Cool postfeminism : the stardom of Sofia Coppola / Caitlin Yunuen Lewis -- Insanity plea : female celebrities, reality media and the psychopathology of British pop-feminism / Emma Bell -- Horror of something to see : celebrity "vaginas" as prostheses / Margaret Schwartz -- Strengthening as they undermine : Rachel Maddow and Suze Orman's homonormative lesbian identities / Joselyn Leimbach -- Living The hills life : Lauren Conrad as reality star, soap opera heroine, and brand / Alice Leppert and Julie Wilson -- Immigration, authorship, censorship, and terrorism : the politics of M.I.A.'s US crossover / Candice Haddad -- We love this trainwreck! : sacrificing Britney to save America / Anna Watkins Fisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fame -- Social aspects.
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Fame -- Social aspects. |
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Celebrities in mass media.
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Celebrities in mass media. |
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Women in mass media.
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Women in mass media. |
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Celebrities -- Political activity.
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Celebrities -- Political activity. |
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Celebrities. |
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Women in popular culture.
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Women in popular culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Negra, Diane, 1966-
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Holmes, Su.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Negra, Diane. In the Limelight and Under the Microscope : Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity. London : Continuum International Publishing, ©2011 9780826438553 |
| ISBN |
9781441176929 (electronic book) |
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1441176926 (electronic book) |
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