Celebrity Critical Concepts in Sociology

In recent years, the study of celebrity has developed and cohered into a flourishing field of social and cultural analysis. There is huge interest in topics such as the politics and logic of glamour; the role of the public-relations industry in manipulating television audiences; the relationship between fame and social control; and the economics of the so-called celebrity industry. And as interest in celebrity continues to explode, a variety of forerunners to its study—drawing on materials from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies, history, psychology, organization studies, politics, film, and literary studies—have been rediscovered and reformulated. Among the lines of enquiry and critical tools that have been recuperated as pertinent to the study of celebrity are leadership, charisma, role models, heroes, role sets, ideology, manipulation, commodification, interpellation, narcissism, signification and individuality. The sheer scale of the available research exploring the many implications of the phenomenon of celebrity—and the breadth and complexity of the canon on which celebrity studies draws—makes this new Major Work from Routledge especially timely. It answers the urgent need for a wide-ranging collection which provides easy access to the key items of scholarly literature, material that is often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. In four volumes, Celebrity brings together the best and most influential foundational and cutting-edge research on: the aetiology and basic concepts of celebrity (including charisma, narcissism, and commodification); theoretical and methodological approaches (e.g. Marxism, structuralism, semiotics, and cultural materialism); the mechanics of celebrity (such as the sociology and psychology of showmanship); and key controversies and current debates (e.g. the politics of stardom; the superstructure of celebrity; and the interpellation of celebrity news and the media). Celebrity is supplemented with a full index, and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.

Celebrity: Critical Concepts in Sociology Edited by Chris Rojek VOLUME I: ORIGINS AND HISTORICAL COUNTERPOINTS Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Ancient Roots and Controversies 1. P. Brown, ‘The Saint as Exemplar in Late Antiquity’, Representations, 1983, 2, 1–28. 2. P. Brandon, ‘The Portrait of Christ: Its Origin and Evolution’, History Today, 1971, 21, 473–81. Part 2: Modernity and Celebrity 3. H. Parker, ‘The Formation of Napoleon’s Personality’, French Historical Studies, 1971–2, 7, 6–26. 4. T. Mole, ‘Lord Byron and the End of Fame’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2008, 11, 3, 343–61. 5. L. Langbauer, ‘The Celebrity Economy of Victorian Studies’, Victorian Studies, 1993, 36, 4, 466–72. 6. L. Berlanstein, ‘Historicizing and Gendering Celebrity Culture; Famous Women in 19th-Century France’, Journal of Women’s History, 2004, 16, 4, 65–91. 7. E. Barry, ‘From Epitaph to Obituary: Death and Celebrity in 18th-Century British Culture’, International Review of Cultural Studies, 2008, 11, 3, 259–75. 8. L. Butterfield, ‘B. Franklin’s Epitaph’, New Colophon, 1950, 3, 9–39. 9. T. McPherson, ‘Picturing Tragedy: Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse Revisited’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1973–4, 33, 3, 401–30. 10. N. Dames, ‘Brushes with Fame: Thackeray and the Work of Celebrity’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2001, 56, 1, 23–51. 11. R. Salmon, ‘Signs of Intimacy: The Literary Celebrity in the "Age of Interviewing"’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 1977, 25, 1, 159–77. 12. Q. Anderson, ‘John Dewey’s American Democrat’, Daedulus, 1979, 108, 5, 145–59. 13. J. Richards, ‘Spreading the Gospel of Self Help: G. A. Henty, and Samuel Smiles’, Journal of Popular Culture, 1982, 16, 2, 52–65. 14. R. Allen, ‘B. F. Keith and the Origins of American Vaudeville’, Theatre Survey, 1980, 21, 105–15. 15. J. Gottlieb, ‘The Marketing of Megalomania: Celebrity, Consumption and the Development of Political Technology in the British Union of Fascists’, Journal of Contemporary History, 2006, 41, 1, 35–55. 16. M. Featherstone, ‘The Heroic Life and Everyday Life’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1992, 9, 159–82. 17. T. McFarland, ‘The Originality Paradox’, New Literary History, 5, 3, 1973–4, 447–76. 18. V. Chakraborty, ‘Leadership in East and West: A Few Examples’, Journal of Human Values, 2003, 9, 1, 29–52. VOLUME II: BASIC CONCEPTS AND KEY DEBATES Contents Acknowledgements Part 3: Basic Concepts 19. S. Turner, ‘Charisma Re-Considered’, Journal of Classical Sociology, 2003, 3, 5–26. 20. S. Kracauer, ‘The Mass Ornament’, New German Critique, 1975, 2, 5, 67–76. 21. D. Horton and R. Wohl, ‘Mass Communications and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance’, Journal of Psychiatry, 1956, 19, 3, 215–29. 22. S. Asch, ‘Opinions and Social Pressures’, Scientific American, 1955, 193, 31–5. 23. S. Lukes, ‘Political Ritual and Social Integration’, Sociology, 1975, 9, 289–308. 24. A. Garry, ‘Narcissism and Vanity’, Social Theory and Practice, 1982, 8, 2, 145–53. 25. A. Tolson, ‘Being Yourself: The Pursuit of Authentic Celebrity’, Discourse Studies, 2001, 3, 443–57. 26. E. Sternberg, ‘Phantasmagoric Labor: The New Economics of Self Presentation’, Futures, 1998, 30, 1, 3–21. Part 4: Key Debates 27. J. Rose, ‘The Cult of Celebrity’, New Formations, 1999, 26, 9–20. 28. T. Gitlin, ‘The Culture of Celebrity’, Dissent, Summer 1998, 81–3. 29. J. Gamson, ‘The Assembly Line of Greatness’, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1992, 9, 1–24. 30. F. Bonner et al., ‘Celebrity and the Media’, Australian Journal of Communication, 1999, 27, 1, 55–70. 31. R. Penfold, ‘The Star’s Image, Victimization and Celebrity Culture’, Punishment & Society, 2004, 6, 3, 289–302. 32. Y. Engle and T. Kasser, ‘Why Do Adolescent Girls Idolize Male Celebrities?’, Journal of Adolescent Research, 2005, 20, 2, 263–83. 33. B. P. Fraser et al., ‘Media Celebrities and Social Influence: Identification with Elvis Presley’, Mass Communications and Society, 2002, 1, 2, 183–206. 34. P. Cushman, ‘Why the Self is Empty: Toward a Historically Situated Psychology’, American Psychologist, 1995, 45, 5, 599–611. 35. L. McCutcheon et al., ‘Conceptualization and Measurement of Celebrity Worship’, British Journal of Psychology, 2003, 93, 67–87. 36. B. King, ‘Stardom, Celebrity and the Para-Confession’, Social Semiotics, 2008, 18, 2, 115–32. 37. B. Creed, ‘The Cyberstar: Digital Pleaseures and the End of the Unconscious’, Screen, 2000, 41, 1, 79–86. 38. J. Baudrillard, ‘The Masses: the Implosion of the Social in the Media’, New Literary History, 1985, 16, 3, 577–89. 39. D. Kellner, ‘TV, Ideology and Emancipatory Popular Culture’, Socialist Review, 1979, 45, 13–53. 40. E. Levy, ‘The Democratic Elite: America’s Movie Stars’, Qualitative Sociology, 1989, 12, 1, 29–54. 41. B. G. Rader, ‘Compensatory Sports Heroes: Ruth, Grange and Dempsey’, Journal of Popular Culture, 1983, 16, 4, 11–22. 42. P. Adler and P. Adler, ‘The Gloried Self’, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1989, 52, 4, 299–310. VOLUME III: THE INTERDISCIPLINARY MATRIX Contents Acknowledgements Part 5: History 43. P. Roberts, ‘The Kingdom’s Two Bodies: Corporeal Rhetoric and Royal Authority During the Religious Wars’, French History, 2007, 21, 2, 147–64. 44. J. T. Campbell, ‘Print the Legend: John Wayne and Postwar American Culture’, Reviews in American History, 2000, 28, 3, 465–77. Part 6: Anthropology 45. C. Yano, ‘Charisma’s Realm: Fandom in Japan’, Ethnology, 1997, 36, 4, 335–49. 46. I. M. Lewis, ‘Spirit Possession and Deprivation Cults’, Man, 1966, 1, 307–29. Part 7: Sociology 47. E. Shils, ‘Charisma, Order and Status’, American Sociological Review, 1965, 30, 199–213. 48. G. McCann, ‘Biographical Boundaries: Sociology and Marilyn Monroe’, Theory, Culture & Society, 1985, 4, 4, 619–32. Part 8: Psychology 49. J. Maltby et al., ‘Extreme Celebrity Worship, Fantasy Proneness and Disassociation: Developing the Measurement and Understanding of Celebrity Worship within a Clinical Personality Context’, Personality and Individual Differences, 2006, 40, 273–83. 50. J. Maltby et al., ‘The Shalt Worship No Other Gods – Unless they are Celebrities: The Relationship between Celebrity Worship and Religious Orientation ’, Personality and Individual Differences, 2002, 32, 1157–72. Part 9: Political Science 51. J. Street, ‘Celebrity Politicians: Popular Culture and Political Representation’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2004, 6, 4, 435–52. 52. G. Meyer, ‘Frank Sinatra: The Popular Front and an American Icon’, Science & Society, 2002, 66, 3, 311–35. Part 10: Cultural Studies 53. J. McGuigan, ‘British Identity and "the People’s Princess", Sociological Review, 2000, 48, 1, 1–18. 54. G. Turner, ‘The Mass Production of Celebrity: "Celetoids, Reality TV and the "Demotic Turn"’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006, 9, 2, 153–65. Part 11: Economics 55. S. Rosen, ‘The Economics of Superstars’, American Economic Review, 1981, 68, 845–58. 56. J. Agrawal and W. A. Kamakura, ‘The Economic Worth of Celebrity Endorsers: An Event Study Analysis’, Journal of Marketing, 1995, 59, 356–62. Part 12: Media and Communication Studies 57. S. Boon and C. Lomore, ‘Admirer-Celebrity Relationships Among Young Adults: Explaining Perceptions of Celebrity Influence on Identity ’, Human Communications Research, 2001, 27, 3, 432–65. Part 13: Film Studies 58. M. Basil, ‘Identification as a Mediator in Celebrity Effects’, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1967, 4, 4, 478–96. 59. R. Dyer, ‘Don’t Look Now’, Screen, 1982, 23, 3–4, 61–73. Part 14: Legal Studies 60. R. H. Coase, ‘Payola in Radio and Television Broadcasting’, Journal of Law and Economics, 1979, 22, 269–328. 61. M. Jacoby and D. Zimmerman, ‘Foreclosing on Fame: Exploring the Unchartered Boundaries of the Right of Publicit