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Sean Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
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Final Call for papers

                             Celebrity Culture
                        Su Holmes and Sean Redmond



Celebrity Culturewill represent a significant intervention in the field on
a number of different levels. Essentially, what we are proposing here is a
book which brings together approaches to stardom and celebrity which range
across historical periods, media forms and national contexts - as well as
disciplinary borders and modes of enquiry (film, television, music, sport,
Internet, print media).  The book aims to bring together a broad range of
essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international
landscape of today?s fame culture.

Proposals can be historical or contemporary and may explore (but are not
limited to) the following areas:

·     Discussions of star/ celebrity theory (critique/ revisitation/
development)
·     Analyses of historical shifts in fame
·     The impact of ?new? media technologies on celebrity construction /
consumption (digital technologies,        internet, cyberspace)
·     Celebrity journalism/ magazines
·     Celebrity and Reality TV
·     Celebrity fandom/ fan cultures / subcultures
·     Celebrity and issues of gender/ sexuality/ ethnicity/ class /
national identity
·     Celebrity ?branding? / promotion
·     Celebrity and politics/ politicians


Addressed to [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], proposals
should be approximately 300-400 words, and include a brief biographical
note and contact details. Deadline October1st 2004.

Su Holmes is  Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at  University of
Kent, UK. She is the co-editor of Understanding Reality TV (Routledge,
2004) and author of British Television and Film Culture in the 1950s:
Coming to a TV Near You! (Intellect, 2005).

Sean Redmond is Principal Lecturer at Southampton Institute, UK. He is the
co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor
(Wallflower, 2003), editor of Liquid Metal: the Science Fiction Film Reader
(Wallflower, 2004), and  author of Studying Chunking Express (Auteur Press,
2004).

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