ISBN:
9781441102386
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Real Lives, Celebrity Stories : Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
From reality television to celebrity gossip magazines, today's technologies have enabled a vast number of personal narratives that document our existence and that of others. Multiple academic disciplines now define the self as fluid and entirely changeable: little more than a performance that is chosen according to the situation. While news journalists still pursue the authentic narrative, advertising and politics might be accused of exploiting the narrative tendency, and across media the personal and public become increasingly merged. Real Lives, Celebrity Stories collects research from publi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part 1 Stories We Live By; 1 Storying Cyberspace: Narratives and Metaphors; 2 Me and You and Everyone We Know: The Centrality of Character in Understanding Media Texts; Part 2 Transforming the Ordinary/Everyday; 3 The Good, the Bad and the Healthy: The Transforming Body and Narratives of Health and Beauty in Reality TV; 4 Competence in Your Own Enactment: Subjectivity and the Theorization of Participatory Art; 5 The Transformations of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor: "Ordinary Life Is Pretty Complex Stuff"; Part 3 The Politics of Representing Real People
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Narratives of Trauma Re-lived: The Ethnographer's Paradox and Other Tales7 Autobiography and Political Marketing: Narrative and the Obama Brand; 8 Merging Fact and Fiction: Cult Celebrity, Film Narrative and the Henry Lee Lucas Story; Part 4 Celebrity Lives Reimagined; 9 Fans Behaving Badly? Real Person Fic and the Blurring of the Boundaries between the Public and the Private; 10 Remembering Frank Sinatra: Celebrity Studies Meets Memory Studies; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
