Celebrity Studies, Volume 7, Issue 4 (2016)

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Articles

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Introduction: re-viewing literary celebrity
Rebecca Braun & Emily Spiers
Pages: 449-456
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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The world author in us all: conceptualising fame and agency in the global literary market
Rebecca Braun
Pages: 457-475
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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Everyday oracles: authors on Twitter
Greg Myers
Pages: 476-492
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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Negotiating the middlebrow: women writers and literary stardom in contemporary France
Diana Holmes
Pages: 493-508
Published online: 30 Sep 2016
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‘It is unseemly to be famous’: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and the melodramatic dynamics of the myth of the Russian poet in Russia and the West
Alexandra Harrington
Pages: 509-525
Published online: 04 Oct 2016
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The celebrity of anonymity and the anonymity of celebrity: picture identification and nineteenth-century British authorship
Kamilla Elliott
Pages: 526-544
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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Between celebrity and glory? Textual after-image in late eighteenth-century France
Jessica Goodman
Pages: 545-560
Published online: 03 Oct 2016
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‘Public feasts’: Ben Jonson as literary celebrity
James Loxley
Pages: 561-574
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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Introduction: literary celebrity and industry practice
Hannah Hamad
Pages: 575-576
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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‘Making it’: practitioners’ views on literary celebrity
Emily Spiers
Pages: 577-579
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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‘Your Lovely Books’: an author’s view on celebrity
Margaret Drabble
Pages: 580-582
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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Disrupting the privileged world of literary celebrity
Sridhar Gowda & Gaurav Somwanshi
Pages: 583-586
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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‘You don’t write for the fame’: celebrity hide and seek in old and new media
Katy Guest
Pages: 587-590
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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Posh Bingo! Prizes, translation and the gatekeepers to literary celebrity
Frank Wynne
Pages: 591-594
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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Book reviews

Book Review
Rock star: the making of musical icons from Elvis to Springsteen, by David R. Shumway, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 244 pp., $29.95/ £19.50 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-42-141392-1
Liam Maloy
Pages: 595-597
Published online: 14 Jul 2016
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Taking fame to market: on the pre-history and post-history of Hollywood stardom, by Barry King, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 256 pp., £132.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13-734427-4
Sara Bakerman
Pages: 597-599
Published online: 28 Mar 2016
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Consumption, media and the Global South: aspiration contested, by Mehita Iqani, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 256 pp., £63.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-13-739012-7
Simidele Dosekun
Pages: 600-601
Published online: 28 Mar 2016
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Transnational stardom: international celebrity in film and popular culture, edited by Russell Meeuf and Raphael Raphael, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 301 pp., £58.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13-726827-3
Lin Feng
Pages: 602-604
Published online: 28 Mar 2016
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First comes love: power couples, celebrity kinship and cultural politics, edited by Shelley Cobb and Neil Ewen, New York, Bloomsbury, 2015, 392 pp., £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-62-892120-5
Helen Warner
Pages: 604-606
Published online: 27 Apr 2016
First Page PreviewforFirst comes love: power couples, celebrity kinship and cultural politics, edited by Shelley Cobb and Neil Ewen, New York, Bloomsbury, 2015, 392 pp., £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-62-892120-5 | Full Text | References | PDF (272.6 KB)
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A companion to celebrity, edited by P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond, Chichester, Wiley, 2015, 584 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-11-847501-0
Celebrity cultures: an introduction, by Lee Barron, London, SAGE, 2014, 216 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-44-624927-7
Michael Lovelock
Pages: 606-610
Published online: 02 Aug 2016
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Celebrity cultures: an introduction, by Lee Barron, London, SAGE, 2014, 216 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-44-624927-7 | Full Text | References | PDF (463.2 KB)
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The existentialist moment: the rise of Sartre as a public intellectual, by Patrick Baert, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2015, 240 pp., £17.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-74-568540-3
Sandra Mayer
Pages: 610-613
Published online: 06 Jul 2016
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Women, celebrity and cultures of ageing: freeze frame, edited by Deborah Jermyn and Su Holmes, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 203 pp., £20.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-13-749511-2
Helen Warner
Pages: 613-615
Published online: 06 Jul 2016
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East Asian film stars, edited by Leung Wing-Fai and Andy Willis, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 228 pp., £63.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-13-702918-8
Wikanda Promkhuntong
Pages: 615-618
Published online: 26 Oct 2016
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