Stardom and Celebrity

PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS/The Nature of Charismatic Domination/The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction/The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception/Myth Today/THAT-HAS-BEEN; The Pose; The Luminous RaysColour; Amazement; Authentification/The Ecstasy of Communication/PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM/The Powerless Elite/Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars/Stars/Heavenly Bodies/Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon/Re-examining Stardom/Questions of Texts Bodies and Performance/From <i>Beyond Control</i> to In Control/Investigating Barrymore's Feminist Agency/Authorship/PART THREE: FAME - REMEMBER MY NAME?: HISTORIES OF STARDOM AND CELEBRITY/The Emergence of the Star System in America/The Assembly Line of Greatness/Celebrity in Twentith-Century America/'Torture Treacle Tears and Trickery'/Celebrities'Ordinary' People and This is Your Life/Celebrity and Religion/The Dream of Acceptability/PART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: 'BECAUSE <i>I'M</i> WORTH IT'/The Economy of Celebrity/Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck/Who Owns Celebrity? Privacy Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images/Celebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy/From the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again /Understanding Literary Celebrity/PART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONS/The Face of Garbo/The Whiteness of Stars/Looking at Kate Winslet's Unruly White Body/The Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social Struggle/Media Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's Cross-over Butt/'Ozzy Worked for those <i>Bleeping</i> Doors with the Crosses on them'/<i>The Osbournes</i> as Social Class Narrative/Mobile Identities Digital Stars and Post-Cinematic Selves/PART SIX: CONSUMING FAME/BECOMING FAMOUS: CELEBRITY AND ITS AUDIENCE/With Stars in their Eyes/Female Spectators and the Paradoxes of Consumption/A Star is Dead: A Legend is Born/Practicing Leslie Cheung's Posthumous Fandom/Doing it For Themselves? Teenage Girls Sexuality and Fame/Media Power/Some Hidden Dimensions