Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity by Jessica Evans
Cites scholarship to shed light on how celebrities are manufactured by media and why audiences respond as they do. With case studies ranging from King Louis XIV to pop star Kylie Minogue, this text examines the construction of celebrity in four concepts: history, text, production, and audience.
Jessica Evans: Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies, The Open University, editor of The Camerawork Essays (1996); co-editor (with Stuart Hall) of Visual Culture: The Reader (2000); co-editor (with Paul du Gay and Peter Redman) of Identity: A Reader (2000). Frances Bonner: Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, author of Ordinary Television (2003) and co-author (with Graeme Turner and P.David Marshall) of Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia (2000); co-editor of Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender (1992). David Hesmondhalgh: Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, The Open University; author of The Cultural Industries (2002), co-editor (with Keith Negus), Popular Music Studies (2002); (with Georgina Born), Western Music and its Others (2000). Nick Stevenson: Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Nottingham; author of Understanding Media Cultures (2nd edn, 2000), The Transformation of the Media (1998), and Cultural Citizenship (Open University Press, 2003).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780335218806 |
| ISBN 10 | 0335218806 |
| Title | Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity |
| Author | Jessica Evans |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open University Press |
| Year published | 2005-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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