Reluctant Celebrity
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Reluctant Celebrity
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Author : Lorraine York
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-17
Reluctant Celebrity written by Lorraine York and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-17 with Social Science categories.
In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the “affective turn in cultural studies”, York studies the mixed affect of reluctance, as it is performed by public figures in the entertainment industries. Setting aside the question of whether these performances are offered “in good faith” or not, York theorizes reluctance as the affective meeting ground of seemingly opposite emotions: disinclination and inclination. The figures under study in this book are John Cusack, Robert De Niro, and Daniel Craig—three white, straight, cis-gendered-male cinematic stars who have persistently and publicly expressed a feeling of reluctance about their celebrity. York examines how the performance of reluctance, which is generally admired in celebrities, builds up cultural prestige that can then be turned to other purposes.
Fanny Kemble
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Author : Rebecca Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (UK)
Release Date : 2005
Fanny Kemble written by Rebecca Jenkins and has been published by Simon & Schuster (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A portrait of a 19th-century star and her struggle against the injustice of the times.
Reluctant Celebrity
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Author : Mark Gorman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Reluctant Celebrity written by Mark Gorman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
The Reluctant Celebrity
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Author : Laurie Ellingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-29
The Reluctant Celebrity written by Laurie Ellingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-29 with categories.
Some people crave fame, others can't escape it.When property developer and loner, Jules Stewart, comes face-to-face with her former self grinning back from the front page of Britain's most popular tabloid, escape is not an option.With a new house determined to remain derelict, a nosy village determined to befriend her, and a gorgeous pub owner determined to undress her, life for Jules is difficult enough. But add a famous ex-boyfriend set to ruin her life (for the second time), a newspaper eager to expose her, and everyone she has ever known desperate for their fifteen minutes of fame...Can Jules protect herself from getting hurt again? Or will her perfectly built life crumble at the same rate as her house?
The Reluctant Billionaire
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Author : Cristina Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Cristina Ryan
Release Date : 2019-10-07
The Reluctant Billionaire written by Cristina Ryan and has been published by Cristina Ryan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-07 with Fiction categories.
Money can buy him (almost) everything, but will having too much make him miss his chance on true love? When Shawn inherits his dad’s estate, he is thrust into the spotlight as the 'Most Desirable Man Alive'. Struggling to navigate the constant presence of bodyguards and a sudden deluge of eligible bachelorettes, he is convinced that getting back to his private life is the answer, until he meets Shelly. She doesn't care about his money or his star status, and she seems to genuinely like him, but his heart has been broken once before. Can he risk opening himself up again? After Shelly meets Shawn at a charity event, she can't stop thinking about him. He’s humble, kind, and generous, everything her ex-husband wasn’t. But when his wealthy status is leaked to the press, it’s impossible to ignore all of the women who are vying for his attention, triggering her painful past. Will she be able to give love a second chance?
Sheer Bliss
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Author : Frances O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Sheer Bliss written by Frances O'Brien and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
It's tougher than you might think to stay sane and normal when your mother is the most famous actress on the planet - but Bliss Drew is one Celebrity Spawn with a serious attitude. Moyra is determined to help Bliss work through her many "issues". Can Bliss navigate her way through her Mom's crazy fans?
Gender And Australian Celebrity Culture
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Author : Anthea Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-29
Gender And Australian Celebrity Culture written by Anthea Taylor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-29 with Social Science categories.
This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields – actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities – and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australia’s colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption. This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies.
Behind The Scenes With Wainwright
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Author : Andrew Nichol
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Behind The Scenes With Wainwright written by Andrew Nichol and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Women And Literary Celebrity In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Dr Brenda R Weber
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-05-28
Women And Literary Celebrity In The Nineteenth Century written by Dr Brenda R Weber and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Mary Cholmondeley, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Robins, Eliza Potter, and Elizabeth Keckley helped create an intelligible category of the famous writer that used celebrity as a leveraging tool for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity. Doing so, Weber demonstrates, involved an intricate gender/sex negotiation that had ramifications for what it meant to be public, professional, intelligent, and extraordinary. Weber's persuasive account elucidates how Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë served simultaneously to support claims for Brontë's genius and to diminish Brontë's body in compensation for the magnitude of those claims, thus serving as a touchstone for later representations of women's literary genius and celebrity. Fanny Fern, for example, adapts Gaskell's maneuvers on behalf of Charlotte Brontë to portray the weak woman's body becoming strong as it is made visible through and celebrated within the literary marketplace. Throughout her study, Weber analyzes the complex codes connected to transatlantic formations of gender/sex, the body, and literary celebrity as women authors proactively resisted an intense backlash against their own success.
Babe Ruth And The Creation Of The Celebrity Athlete
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Author : Thomas Barthel
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-07-25
Babe Ruth And The Creation Of The Celebrity Athlete written by Thomas Barthel and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-25 with Sports & Recreation categories.
From his first year in the majors, George Herman "Babe" Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attempt to cash in. Traded to the Yankees in 1920, he soon signed with Christy Walsh, baseball's first publicity agent. Walsh realized that stories of great deeds in sports were a commodity, and in 1921 sold Ruth's ghostwritten byline to a newspaper syndicate for $15,000 ($187,000 today). Ruth hit home runs while Walsh's writers made him a hero, crafting his public image as a lovable scalawag. Were the stories true? It didn't matter--they sold. Many survive but have never been scrutinized until now. Drawing on primary sources, this book examines the stories, separating exaggerated facts from clear falsehoods. This book traces Ruth's ascendance as the first great media-created superstar and celebrity product endorser.