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Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formation
Contributor(s): Mazzarella, Sharon R. (Other), Duvall, Spring-Serenity (Editor)
ISBN: 1433143100     ISBN-13: 9781433143106
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE:   $105.29  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Business Aspects
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: 155.518
LCCN: 2018042640
Series: Mediated Youth
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 236 pages
 
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Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formation makes an examination of contemporary celebrity culture with an emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured, how fan communities are cultivated, and how young audiences consume and aspire to fame. This book foregrounds considerations of diversity within celebrity and fan cultures, and takes an international perspective on the production of stardom. Chapters include interviews with professional athletes in the United States about their experiences with stardom after coming out as gay, and interviews with young people in Europe about their consumption of celebrity and aspirations of achieving fame via social media. Other chapters include interviews with young Canadian women that illuminate the potential influence of famous feminists on audience political engagement, and critical analysis of media narratives about race, happiness, cultural appropriation, and popular feminisms. The current anthology brings together scholarship from Canada, the United States, Spain, and Portugal to demonstrate the pervasive reach of global celebrity, as well as the commonality of youth experiences with celebrity in diverse cultural settings.