With apologies for cross-posting. Celebrity Studies Journal 10.3 Special Issue on Authenticating Celebrity now online Celebrity Studies Journal is please to announce the release of our latest issue on the theme 'Authenticating Celebrity'. Many thanks to Special Issue editor Gaston Franssen for your hard work. The issue is available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcel20/current For a sneak peak of the contents, please check out the list of articles below. Sincerity and authenticity in celebrity culture: introduction<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630117><https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630117> Gaston Franssen Because it’s the truth: authenticating Chanel through celebrity death and fan magazines<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630118> Ann-Marie Fleming In/authenticity and food-celebrity relationships in Michael Pollan’s In Defence of Food and Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Food Revolution <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630119> Katrine Meldgaard Kjær ‘We are not calling her Italian’: narratives and images of ethnic incorporation in Isa Miranda’s American persona<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630127> Antonella Palmieri From Clooney to Kardashian: reluctant celebrity and social media <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630152> Pamela Ingleton and Lorraine York YouTubers-turned-authors and the problematic practice of authenticity<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630153> Alison Lutton How to get away with authenticity: Viola Davis and the intersections of Blackness, naturalness, femininity and relatability<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630154> Francesca Sobande Hating Skyler White: audience engagement, gender politics and celebrity culture<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630155> Joke Hermes and Leonie Stoete In our Forum @realDonaldTrump: political celebrity, authenticity, and para-social engagement on Twitter<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630157> Andrea McDonnell and Mark Wheeler Why I too write about Beyonceì<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630158> Jaap Kooijman Real men: Sam Smith’s emasculation of the James Bond theme<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630159> Nicholas Manganas ‘Taylor Swift: the hardest working, zaniest girl in show business. . .’<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630160> Maryn Wilkinson Regards, Celia ___________________________________________________________ Dr Celia Lam Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural studies School of International Communications University of Nottingham Ningbo China Room 337, Trent Building 199 Taikang East Road Ningbo 315100 +86 (0) 574 8818 0000 - 8453 | nottingham.edu.cn<https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/> 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. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]