Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors discuss Brad Pitt's rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina, Angelina Jolie's recent casting controversy, and Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest. Star brand building through social media and how that translates to the Broadway stage are also examined, as well as how the privacy laws demanded by celebrities can infringe on their own audience's First Amendment rights.
Author(s): Carol M. Madere
Publisher: Lexington Books/The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 215
Tags: Celebrity Lives, Impact: Public And Private Lives
Cover......Page 1
How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own......Page 2
How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own: Understanding the Impact on Americans’ Public and Private Lives......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Tragic Research: A Primer to Suicidology......Page 14
Celebrity Imitation and Copycat Fans......Page 17
Invoking Werther: Celebrity and Suicide Clusters......Page 18
Invoking Papageno: Celebrity and Suicide Prevention......Page 20
Conclusion: Guidelines for Social Media?......Page 23
References......Page 24
Looking to the Starchitects......Page 28
The Make It Right Foundation......Page 29
Celebrity Displaces Deliberation in Favor of Manufactured Consent......Page 30
Celebrity Alienating, Depoliticizing, and Recontextualizing the Lower Ninth......Page 32
Celebrity Maintaining Structural Hierarchy and Reaffirming Neoliberalism......Page 39
Notes......Page 41
References......Page 42
Star Brand Power and the Broadway Stage......Page 44
Equus (2008)......Page 47
Orphans (2013)......Page 54
Sister Act: The Musical (2011)......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 61
References......Page 62
“Save Your Life! Do What I Post!”......Page 64
Attention Paid to the Topic at Hand......Page 66
Retention of Knowledge......Page 68
Reproduction of the Knowledge or Behavior in a New Social Context......Page 71
Motivation to Reproduce the Behavior......Page 73
Conclusion......Page 76
References......Page 77
I’m Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV......Page 80
Jenny McCarthy and the Anti-Vaccination Movement......Page 81
Media Influence on Support for the Anti-Vaccine Movement......Page 87
Offit vs. McCarthy Celebrity Death Match......Page 89
Consequences of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy......Page 91
References......Page 92
The Hunger Games for Orphans?......Page 96
Celebrity Humanitarianism, Global Motherhood, and Angelina Jolie......Page 98
“It’s the Kind of Thing I’d Expect in a Borat-Style Parody”: Media Backlash to Jolie’s Casting Process......Page 101
From “Ethereal Wood Nymph” to “Removed Ice Queen”: Authenticity, Motherhood, and Celebrity......Page 103
“No Faves Are Safe”: Celebrity Call-Out Culture and Future Directions......Page 108
Notes......Page 110
References......Page 111
Colin Kaepernick, Civil Disobedience, and Self-Sacrificial Leadership......Page 114
Civil Disobedience......Page 115
A Willingness to Accept the Consequences of Disobedience......Page 117
Self-Sacrificial Leadership......Page 118
References......Page 121
Celebrity Suicide......Page 126
Suicides by Professional Athletes......Page 127
Suicides by Musicians......Page 129
Robin WILLIAMS’S Suicide......Page 134
References......Page 136
The Naked Truth......Page 142
Women’s Bodies as Social Constructions......Page 143
Postfeminist Media Culture......Page 144
Analytical Approach......Page 146
“I Do It Because I’m Proud of It”: The Body as a Source of Identity......Page 147
“Her Baby-Maker Has always Been Her Money-Maker”: Sexualization, Sensationalism, and Consumerism......Page 149
“These Women Were Bold and so Strong”: Subverting Postfeminist Sensibilities......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 152
References......Page 154
How to Be a Postfeminist......Page 160
Amber Rose’s Rise to Fame......Page 162
Celebrity Culture, Hip-Hop, and Postfeminism......Page 163
Analyzing How to Be a Bad Bitch for Hip-Hop and Postfeminist Messages......Page 166
Understanding Rose’s Book as Postfeminist Literature......Page 167
The Empowering, Contradictory Themes within How to Be a Bad Bitch......Page 169
Rose’s Use of Hip-Hop Feminism to Empower and Teach Women......Page 170
Conclusion......Page 172
References......Page 174
Sex, Likes, and Instagram......Page 178
Celebrities’ Self-Presentation on Social Media......Page 179
Celebrities, Sexualization, and Social Media......Page 180
Strategies for Self-Presentation......Page 182
Analysis of Celebrities’ Instagram Self-Presentation Strategies......Page 183
Celebrity Characteristic and Self-Presentation......Page 186
Conclusion......Page 187
Future Directions......Page 189
References......Page 190
Methodological Appendix......Page 193
Celebrities’ Legal Rights in California to Fight Paparazzi Intrusion......Page 194
Media Rights in the United States......Page 196
Protecting Victims from Harassment......Page 197
California Privacy Law......Page 200
California Driving Law......Page 202
Conclusion......Page 204
References......Page 205
Index......Page 208
About the Contributors......Page 212
