Stardom and Celebrity

PART ONE: STAR AND CELEBRITY CULTURE: THEORETICAL ANTECEDENTS
The Nature of Charismatic Domination - Max Weber
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer
Myth Today - Roland Barthes
"THAT-HAS-BEEN"; The Pose; The Luminous Rays,Colour; Amazement; Authentification - Roland Barthes
The Ecstasy of Communication - Jean Baudrillard
PART TWO THE ANALYSIS OF FAME: UNDERSTANDING STARDOM
The Powerless Elite - Franceso Alberoni
Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars
Stars - Richard Dyer
Heavenly Bodies - Richard Dyer
Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon - John Ellis
Re-examining Stardom - Christine Geraghty
Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance
From Beyond Control to In Control - Rebecca Williams
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 - Richard deCordova
The Assembly Line of Greatness - Joshua Gamson
Celebrity in Twentith-Century America
'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery' - Su Holmes
Celebrities,'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life
Celebrity and Religion - Chris Rojek
The Dream of Acceptability - Leo Braudy
PART FOUR: PRODUCING FAME: 'BECAUSE I'M WORTH IT'
The Economy of Celebrity - Graeme Turner
Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck - Rebecca L. Epstein
Who Owns Celebrity? Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images - Philip Drake
Celebrity CEOS and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy - Jo Littler
From the Alter to the Market-Place and Back Again - Wenche Ommundsen
Understanding Literary Celebrity
PART FIVE: MADE IN CULTURE: STAR AND CELEBRITY REPRESENTATIONS
The Face of Garbo - Roland Barthes
The Whiteness of Stars - Sean Redmond
Looking at Kate Winslet's Unruly White Body
The Hollywood Latina Body as a Site of Social

Sean Redmond is professor of screen and design at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Celebrity, Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age, Celebrity and the Media, and The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood. He is the founding editor of Celebrity Studies, short-listed for best new academic journal in 2011.

"This welcome addition to the literature on fame goes beyond goes beyond stardom--though Redmond and Holmes cover that topic well--to discuss stardom and celebrity in general."