Celebrity Studies Journal 11.1 Special Issue on Desecrating Celebrity now online Celebrity Studies Journal is pleased and proud to announce the release of our latest issue on the theme 'Desecrating Celebrity’. Many thanks to Special Issue editors Romana Andò and Sean Redmond for your hard work. The issue available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcel20/11/1?nav=tocList For a sneak peak at the contents, please check out the list of articles below: Desecrating celebrity<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704367> Romana Andò and Sean Redmond Articles Taking down the sacred: fuck-me vs. fuck-you celebrity<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704369> Misha Kavka Beautiful penitent whore: the desecrated celebrity of Mary Magdalene<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704378> Lucy Bolton A Venus in marble and Bakelite: Ava Gardner and One Touch of Venus (1948)<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704380> Michael Williams White trash celebrity in the age of eugenics: desecrating Clara Bow<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704381> Gaylyn Studlar Who will fix it for us? Toxic celebrity and the therapeutic dynamics of media culture<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704383> Caroline Bainbridge De-celebrification: beyond the scandalous<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704385> Mette Mortensen and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen Trolled, body-shamed and slut-shamed: the desecration of the contemporary Bollywood female star on social media<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704388> Sreya Mitra Desecration and the politics of ‘image pollution’: Ambedkar statues and the ‘sculptural encounter’ in India<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704389> Pramod K Nayar President Trump: celebrity-in-chief and the desecration of political authority<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704391> Anita Biressi Forum Your face is a mess: desecrating David Bowie’s face-as-commodity in ‘Diamond Dogs’ <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704394> Ian Dixon From awkward teen girl to aryan goddess meme: Taylor Swift and the hijacking of star texts<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704431> Annelot Prins Jaak Joala – ‘Kremlin nightingale’ or Estonian celebrity?<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704455> Heli Reimann Trainwreck femininity and Whitney: monstrous feminine redux<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704477> Susan Hopkins Regards, Celia ___________________________________________________________ Dr Celia Lam Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural studies Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences School of International Communications University of Nottingham Ningbo China Room 337, Trent Building 199 Taikang East Road Ningbo 315100 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with The University of Nottingham Ningbo China may be monitored as permitted by UK and Chinese legislation. ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org