Celebrity Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1 (2017)

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Celebrity Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1 (2017)

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Zoe Saldana or Zoë Saldaña?: cinematic dominicanidad and the Hollywood star
Keara K. Goin
Pages: 1-19
Published online: 18 Apr 2016
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‘There is no Zyzz’: the subcultural celebrity and bodywork project of Aziz Shavershian
Glen Fuller & Catherine Page Jeffery
Pages: 20-34
Published online: 03 Jun 2016
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Cultivating global celebrity: Bindi Irwin, FremantleMedia and the commodification of grief
Anna Potter & Lisa Hill
Pages: 35-50
Published online: 27 Jun 2016
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Lorde: a mole in the mainstream?
Tony Mitchell
Pages: 51-70
Published online: 26 Jul 2016
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Starring James Van Der Beek as himself: celebrity, camp and the ‘meta-role of a lifetime’
Jocelyn Smith
Pages: 71-86
Published online: 10 Aug 2016
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‘Is every YouTuber going to make a coming out video eventually?’: YouTube celebrity video bloggers and lesbian and gay identity
Michael Lovelock
Pages: 87-103
Published online: 08 Aug 2016
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Podcast comedy and ‘Authentic Outsiders’: how new media is challenging the owners of industry
Alex Symons
Pages: 104-118
Published online: 11 Aug 2016
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Cultural Report

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Korea celebrity dossier: introduction
Neil Ewen
Pages: 119-121
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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‘Food porn’ or intimate sociality: committed celebrity and cultural performances of overeating in meokbang
Glen Donnar
Pages: 122-127
Published online: 17 Jan 2017
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Just beautiful people holding a bottle: the driving forces behind South Korea’s love of celebrity endorsement
James Turnbull
Pages: 128-135
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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Rediscovering the idols: K-pop idols behind the mask
Jennifer M. Kang
Pages: 136-141
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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Rockin’ in the unfree world: North Korea’s Moranbong Band and the celebrity dictator
David Zeglen
Pages: 142-150
Published online: 20 Jan 2017
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Introduction: literary celebrity and politics
Hannah Hamad
Page: 151
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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Forum

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Introduction: art and action: authorship, politics and celebrity
Sandra Mayer
Pages: 152-156
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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The political function of Elizabethan literary celebrity
Kate De Rycker
Pages: 157-161
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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Crossing boundaries: Harriet Beecher Stowe as literary celebrity and anti-slavery campaigner
Simon Morgan
Pages: 162-166
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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Texts, talks and tailoring: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fashion politics
Matthew Lecznar
Pages: 167-171
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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On strong opinions: celebrity authors in the contemporary agora
Peter D. McDonald
Pages: 172-175
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Dead matter, by Margaret Schwartz, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 168 pp., $25.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8166-9434-1
Agata Frymus
Pages: 176-178
Published online: 13 Jan 2017
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Cupcakes, Pinterest and Ladyporn: feminised popular culture in the early twenty- first century, edited by Elana Levine, Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2015, 284 pp., £28.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-252-08108-8
Victoria Jaynes
Pages: 178-180
Published online: 20 Jan 2017
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Diana and beyond: white femininity, national identity and contemporary media culture by Raka Shome, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, University of Illinois Press, 2014, 256 pp., £24.99 (paperback), IBSN: 978-0-252-08030-2
Karen Wilkes
Pages: 181-183
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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Deconstructing Brad Pitt, edited by Christopher Schaberg and Robert Bennett, New York, Bloomsbury, 2014, 296 pp., £23.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-62-356179-6
Tracey Mollet
Pages: 183-185
Published online: 07 Feb 2017
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Enchanting David Bowie: space/time/body/memory, edited by Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean Redmond, New York and London, Bloomsbury, 2015, 368 pp., £23.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-6289-2303-2
Sophia L. Deboick
Pages: 185-187
Published online: 17 Jan 2017
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Celebrity: capitalism and the making of fame, by Milly Williamson, Cambridge and Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2016, 216 pp., £17.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0745641058
Stephanie Patrick
Pages: 188-190
Published online: 16 Jan 2017
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