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Real lives, celebrity stories : narratives of ordinary and extraordinary people across media
Title
Real lives, celebrity stories : narratives of ordinary and extraordinary people across media / edited by Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round.
ISBN
9781441102386 (hardback : alk. paper)
1441102388 (hardback : alk. paper)
Publication
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Physical Description
222 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round
Stories we live by
Storying cyberspace: narratives and metaphors/ Sue Thomas
Me and you and everyone we know: the centrality of character in understanding media texts / Craig Batty
Transforming the ordinary/everyday. The good, the bad and the healthy: the transforming body and narratives of health and beauty in reality tv / Peri Bradley
Competence in your own enactment: subjectivity and the theorization of participatory art / Simon Grennan
The transformations of Harvey Pekar's American splendor: "ordinary life is pretty complex stuff" / Julia Round
The politics of representing real people. Narratives of trauma re-lived: the ethnographer's paradox and other tales / Marina Lambrou
Autobiography and political marketing: narrative and the Obama brand / Darren G. Lilleker
Merging fact and fiction: cult celebrity, film narrative and the Henry Lee Lucas story / Shaun Kimber
Celebrity lives reimagined. Fans behaving badly? real person fic and the blurring of the boundaries between the public and the private / Bronwen Thomas
Remembering Frank Sinatra: celebrity studies meets memory studies / Roberta Pearson.
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