The Celebrity Persona Pandemic
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic
By (Author) P. David Marshall
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
31st October 2016
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Media studies
Physical Properties
Paperback
104
Width 127mm, Height 178mm, Spine 25mm
Description
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic explores how the construction of a public persona is fetishized in contemporary culture. As social media has progressively led to a greater focus on the production of the self, so this book looks at the most visible versions of persona through figures such as Stephen Colbert, Cate Blachett, and Justin Bieber, as well as fictional characters like Spock and Harry Potter. Ultimately, P. David Marshall closely studies how persona culture shapes our notions of value and significance, and dramatically shifts cultural politics. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Author Bio
P. David Marshall holds a personal chair in new media, communication, and cultural studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is author or editor of several books, including Celebrity and Power (Minnesota, 2014).
