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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Editor's Introduction | |
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| Celebrity and Modernity: The Historical Pattern of Celebrity Section Introduction | |
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| Man as Actor | |
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| The Longing of Alexander | |
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| The Sociology of Charismatic Authority and The Nature of Charismatic Authority and its Routinization | |
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| From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo-event | |
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| The Discourse on Acting Richard de Cordova | |
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| The Powerless Elite: Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars | |
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| The triumph of Mass Idols | |
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| Stars as Images | |
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| The Textual and the Extra Textual Dimensions of the Public Persona Section Introduction | |
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| Television's Personality System | |
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| The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: the Construction of Distinctive Authenticity | |
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| Is Straight the New Queer? David Beckham and the Dialectics of Celebrity | |
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| Articulating Stardom | |
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| Feminine Fascinations | |
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| Australian Idol and the Attention Economy | |
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| Reading Gossip Magazines: the Imagined Communities of 'Gossip' and 'Camp' | |
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| Ascribed Celebrity: the Transformed public sphere Section Introduction | |
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| Intimately Intertwined in the most public way: Celebrity and Journalism | |
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| The Reign of Hype: The contemporary (Literary) Star System | |
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| America's new Son: Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism | |
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| The Celebrity Politician | |
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| Academostars: Name Recognition | |
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| Celebrity and Religion | |
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| Phantasmagoric Labor: The New economics of self-presentation | |
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| Transgression: Scandal, Notoriety and Infamy Section Introduction | |
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| Investigating the Serial Killer: The Seeking of Origins | |
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| [Don't] leave me Alone: Tabloid Narrative and the | |
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| The quest for fame | |
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| Celebrity, the Tabloid and the Democratic Public Sphere | |
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| The Celebrity Legacy of the Beatles | |
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| Exemplary Differences: Mourning ( and not mourning) a princess | |
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| Vanishing point | |
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| Narcissism, Fandom and the Will to Celebrity Section Introduction | |
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| I don't have a great Body, but I play one on TV: The Celebrity Guide to Fitness and Weight loss in the United States | |
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| Beauty and the Female Body | |
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| Is there a fan in the House? Affective Sensibility of Fandom | |
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| "I'll be there with You": Fans, Fantasy and the figure of Elvis | |
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| The Psychology of Achieved Celebrity | |
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| "John, a 20 year-old Boston native with a great sense of humor": on the spectacularization of the 'self' and the incorporation of identity in the age of reality television | |
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| New Media - New Self: the changing power of the celebrity | |
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| The Celebrity Industry: The Management of Fame Section Introduction | |
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| The Private Ownership of People | |
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| [Walter Winchell]: Stardom | |
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| The Negotiated Celebration | |
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| Authorizing the Celebrity: Engendering Alternative Identities | |
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| Producing Celebrity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |