Celebrity Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Celebrity Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere20
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K19
Playing with Blackness: critical race humour and the shifting dynamics of Black identity in South Korean media12
A socio-historical study of the emergence of celebrity culture in Iran: causes and roots9
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations9
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’9
Statement of Retraction: From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey8
Teen TV7
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images7
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews6
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality6
Influencers as role models6
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood5
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence5
The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal4
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth4
Keanu’s late style: the ubiquitous art of short-form celebrity4
Taboo and celebrity: a cross-linguistic case study on Woody Allen and incest4
The art of attracting attention: a process model of Chinese toubu vloggers’ strategies to create online identities and self-brands3
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller3
From father to son, from son to daughter: redefining celebrity activism through defiant Burmese voices3
The godly girlboss3
Fandom as multi-element citizenship: the dual politicisation of transnational K-pop fandom in China3
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers3
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: the personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris3
Rebel, playboy, hero: Jins Shamsuddin and Malay film stardom in the 1960s3
Exploring the rise of activism for LGBTQ+ rights in contemporary Thailand within Boys Love idol culture3
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies2
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet2
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s online concert 20202
Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics2
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity2
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame2
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?2
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia2
Disruptors in media rituals: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Playful Rebellion’ in converging television news2
Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships2
Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines2
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise2
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability2
A Touch More with Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird: authenticity, intimacy and women’s sports celebrity on Instagram live2
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI2
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship2
Translating the ‘untranslatable’: is it the way to become a translator celebrity?1
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity1
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor: perfection as the prerequisite for visibility, commodification and activism1
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)1
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others1
Darshan , selfies, and the celebritisation of Bollywood stars in Australia1
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity1
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna1
Governing Asian celebrity1
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest1
Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How VTubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity1
‘You are from the country of @iamsrk. I trust you’: Shah Rukh khan, transnational stardom and counteracting the problematics of the Muslim celebrity in contemporary India1
Women Comedians in the Digital Age: Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump Women Comedians in the Digital Age: Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump ,1
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies1
Ecological Wunderkind and heroic trollhunter: the celebrity saga of Greta Thunberg1
Asian celebrities and the pandemic: misreading the room? A perspective from India1
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand1
Keanu Reeves’ body as battleground1
Attraction of knowledge celebrities: how they motivate users to pay for knowledge1
Hollywood stardom, glamour shots and poetry in 1930s Portugal: the cinephile poems of António Botto1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)1
From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators0
Conchita Montenegro and the Spanish press: from national pride to nationalist melodrama0
Death and celebrity: introduction0
Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties” myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic0
Marilyn Monroe’s mystery house: reappraising Fifth Helena Drive0
Introduction to the special issue on social media influencers: performance, authenticity, and social media visibility0
Crossover stardom on small screens: the case of Zhang Ziyi0
Reimagining Leslie Cheung through Hanyuan Bookstore: the posthumous personalities of the queer Hong Kong celebrity0
Global (post)feminist icon? Celebrity feminism, diplomacy, and Eileen Gu’s star persona in China and the US0
‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image0
‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’0
Asymmetries of power in transnational literary celebrity: the case of Elif Shafak’s bilingual website0
Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity0
‘You’re really going to be fine’: celebrity cameos, Toast (2010) and the British biopic0
You live, you learn: celebrity aging, emotional expression, and femininity in Alanis Morissette’s star story0
Mother Teresa: the saint and her nation0
Cultural report: black lives matter and celebrity0
The memoir and the mediated self: the crafting and performance of Madhur Jaffrey’s persona in climbing the Mango Trees (2006)0
Female celebrities in digital age: the changing notions of stardom in Malayalam cinema0
It is imperative and obtainable: the construction of confidence culture by female toubu vloggers on Xiaohongshu0
Ferdinand the Third: historical revisionism and the celebrity construction of Sandro Marcos0
Caught between China and Hollywood: the transnational journey of Jing Tian in The Great Wall (2016)0
Political capital and stardom in China: the transnational persona of Choo Ja-hyun0
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China0
The concept of an ‘anticelebrity’: a new type of antihero of the media age and its impact on modern politics0
Asian celebrity and the pandemic: introduction0
Editor’s introduction: professional wrestling and authenticity0
Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy0
The Continental Exotic sex symbol – Gal Gadot0
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction0
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Sports celebrity to superhero: MS Dhoni, Indian cricket and the graphic novel0
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood0
Cultural report: Turkish celebrity dossier0
Renaissance man: Hugh Grant’s performance of class, white Englishness, and joyfully mature masculinity0
History ‘for the gram’: AI beauty and the vintage, analogue, and ‘throwback’ celebrity0
Fiction and reality entangled: Chinese ‘coupling’ (CP) fans pairing male celebrities forpleasure, comfort, andresponsibility0
Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer0
The cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: twenty-six short essays on a working star0
Keanu Reeves, John Wick, and the myths and tensions between star brands and franchise properties0
Scandal maketh the man? The evolution of Hugh Grant and the celebrity confessional0
Interrogating machoism, male celebrity rivalry and digital fandom practices in Nigerian Hip Hop0
‘Natalie Wood Day’: sexual violence and celebrity remembrance in the #MeToo Era0
Lady Gaga and the sociology of fame: the rise of a pop star in an age of celebrity0
No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China0
The child prodigy as a global celebrity: the chess wonder Samuel Reshevsky0
The incredible, ageless Reeves: aging celebrity, aging fans, and nostalgia0
#blacklivesmatter in the WWE: professional wrestlers negotiating kayfabe and authentic rhetoric through online political engagement0
The politics of celebrity fandom in Asia dossier: introduction0
The changing nature of celebrity in musical theatre: the development of star casting0
‘Spill your guts or fill your guts’: Performative celebrity masochism and audience sadism in food challenge media0
From ‘stay home’ to #TakeOutHate: Asian-American and Southeast Asian celebrities in the pandemic0
Cultural Report: Black Lives Matter and celebrity [Part Two]0
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices0
Razor-sharp charms: Hugh Grant’s image renegotiation and the turn to villains0
Just a famous actor sitting in front of a judge: Hugh Grant’s presentation of self in the Leveson inquiry0
Pop ubiquity: cameo performance as star management0
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era0
Aunt Becky goes rogue: de-celebrification and de-mothering in the college cheating scandal, Operation Varsity Blues0
From Old Tom Morris to Andy Murray: an examination of the Scottishness of Scotland’s sporting celebrities0
Petty things and nemeses0
Look what you made them do: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out0
Mainstreaming wanghong in the international press discourse0
Jon Hamm’s post- Mad Men persona and representations of hegemonic masculinity0
Spectacular remains: Black celebrity, death and the aesthetics of autopsy0
Cem Yilmaz, national stardom, transnational comedy0
‘Enter the Brocktagon’: authenticity, artifice & the creation of the hybridised combat sports star0
Correction0
Black Lives Matter in London, June 2020: Patrick Hutchinson, instant celebrity, and changing discourses of race and class in British media0
Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity0
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes0
Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities0
Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame0
The politics of kinship: social credit, digital vigilantism, and celebrity governance in China0
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: introduction0
Chinese celebrity and Wanghong economy: diversification, motivation and capitalisation0
On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori0
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: Persona and promotion0
Singaporean Influencers and Covid-19 on Instagram Stories0
Global icon or national star?: interpreting the contested star image of BLACKPINK’s Lisa in a transnational context0
Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila0
‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg0
Celebrity in the Time of Covid: Fandom and the Influence of Pandemic Messaging0
‘Such emotional sterility proves ideal for the role’: Hugh Grant’s proto-celebrity and its media (self-)construction around Maurice0
Tarkan’s Geççek from a celebrity capital perspective: the reflection of the political polarisation in post-pandemic Turkey in the reception of a pop song0
Marc Maron: comedic persona and the limits of laughing at politics0
Officially cancelled but eternally remembered: the queering paradox of Chinese comedic influencers through multi-platform mediation0
Chinese celebrity dossier: the politics of censorship governance0
Names shredded apart: Banksy, pseudonymity, and fame0
Being ‘real’ in a staged sport: the process and negotiation of authenticity in wrestling star images0
Starring Tom Cruise0
BTS for BLM: K-pop, Race, and Transcultural Fandom0
Beyoncé in the world: making meaning with Queen Bey in troubled times0
Killing Conchita: celebrity persona (de/re)construction as artistic transformation0
Asian cultures of authenticity: the authentic self narrative in sociological perspective or the case of Tóc Tiên’s celebrity biography0
A star is made, not born: the production and reproduction of Mae West as a screen icon0
From grassroots to celebrities in healthcare– professionality as a new persona in China’s celebrity culture0
Senses of an ending: Danish reactions to the death of Elvis Presley in 19770
Introduction: celebrity between invisibility and hypervisibility0
Constructing a realm of memory for a deceased star in mainland China: Leslie Cheung and spirit tablets0
Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline , edited by Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael, Renee Middlemost, and Jessica Balanzategui0
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday0
Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism0
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism0
Taking the green pill? Keanu Reeves as ‘reluctant eco-celebrity’0
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’0
Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman0
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism0
Trammelled stars: the non-autonomy of female K-pop idols0
Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy0
RETRACTED ARTICLE: From Sacrificing Sister to Star Sister: The History of Queer Celebrity in Turkey0
Keeping Thomas Pynchon private: the limits to studying an ‘anonymous’ celebrity0
‘Mulan’s legacy’ in contemporary Chinese women entrepreneurs: reading the image of Pansy Ho0
Frontline celebrities featured: investigating the most engaged Douyin videos during Xi’an lockdown0
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