Understanding Celebrity by Graeme Turner

Understanding Celebrity by Graeme Turner

A long awaited fully revised and updated edition of Graeme Turners popular exploration of celebrity studies.

This revised and extended edition of Understanding Celebrity is an outstanding achievementThe book draws upon new transformations in celebrity - such as the deployment of the social media to create complex spaces of identification and agency - to assess its impact on all aspects of contemporary life. Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity today that should concern us all. -- Sean Redmond

Accessibly written - and reinvigorated with reference to new case studies and trends - Understanding Celebrity remains a key touchstone for Celebrity Studies. Turner thoughtfully illuminates the variety of production and consumption practices through which celebrity circulates today, whilst remaining sensitive to the complexity of power relations in play. An essential read for students and scholars in the field.

-- Su Holmes

Understanding Celebrity not only cements Turner’s status as the most important figure in celebrity studies, but also reminds us why the study of celebrity is so important. Providing a significant and compelling update, Turner’s gaze fixes on developments in digital, social and global mediascapes, drawing media and celebrity studies into complex critical, political and cultural debates in his indomitable style.

-- James Bennett

An extraordinary synthesis of research and theory, filled with original insights, the new edition of Understanding Celebrity remains the go-to text of celebrity studies. From Elvis to Kim Kardashian, from old Hollywood to the Twitterverse, from fandom to DIY stardom, Turner covers complex ground with smarts and erudition.

-- Joshua Gamson
This is a timely and, given the meteoric emergence of social media, necessary update of Graeme Turner’s 2004 subject defining work Understanding Celebrity.  Turner widens the frame of discussion and it is here that the value of the book is evident, not only as summative text on the academic study of celebrity but also as a compelling exploration of issues relating to consumerism and identity, Americanisation and the ‘battle’ between elite and popular culture. -- Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read, Coventry University

Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia

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ISBN 13	9781446253212
ISBN 10	144625321X
Title	Understanding Celebrity
Author	Graeme Turner
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2013-10-22
Number of pages	184
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