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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K22
Playing with Blackness: critical race humour and the shifting dynamics of Black identity in South Korean media15
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere14
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations11
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’10
Teen TV8
A socio-historical study of the emergence of celebrity culture in Iran: causes and roots8
Statement of Retraction: From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey7
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images7
Influencers as role models6
The making of an Oceanic superhero: Dwayne Johnson, mixed identity, and non-conforming heroism in Black Adam (2022)6
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality6
The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal6
‘She really gets my blood boiling': moral judgements, dislike and celebrities5
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews5
Keanu’s late style: the ubiquitous art of short-form celebrity4
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence4
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth4
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood4
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller3
What the Kendrick Lamar–Drake feud tells us about celebrity masculinities in online popular culture after #MeToo3
From father to son, from son to daughter: redefining celebrity activism through defiant Burmese voices3
Taboo and celebrity: a cross-linguistic case study on Woody Allen and incest3
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: the personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris3
Fandom as multi-element citizenship: the dual politicisation of transnational K-pop fandom in China3
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
Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines2
Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics2
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers2
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise2
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet2
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
‘Bad Vibes, Forever?’: Intersectionality, Severity Hedging and Philanthropic Redemption in the XXXTentacion Fan Community2
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability2
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame2
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI2
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia2
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?2
The godly girlboss2
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies2
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity1
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
Attraction of knowledge celebrities: how they motivate users to pay for knowledge1
Governing Asian celebrity1
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)1
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Ecological Wunderkind and heroic trollhunter: the celebrity saga of Greta Thunberg1
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey1
Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How VTubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity1
Translating the ‘untranslatable’: is it the way to become a translator celebrity?1
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor: perfection as the prerequisite for visibility, commodification and activism1
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)1
Keanu Reeves’ body as battleground1
‘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
Hollywood stardom, glamour shots and poetry in 1930s Portugal: the cinephile poems of António Botto1
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies1
Darshan , selfies, and the celebritisation of Bollywood stars in Australia1
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others1
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity1
Jordan Peterson’s hollow core0
Razor-sharp charms: Hugh Grant’s image renegotiation and the turn to villains0
Chinese celebrity and Wanghong economy: diversification, motivation and capitalisation0
Introduction to the special issue on social media influencers: performance, authenticity, and social media visibility0
Editor’s introduction: professional wrestling and authenticity0
Reimagining Leslie Cheung through Hanyuan Bookstore: the posthumous personalities of the queer Hong Kong celebrity0
Marilyn Monroe’s mystery house: reappraising Fifth Helena Drive0
From Old Tom Morris to Andy Murray: an examination of the Scottishness of Scotland’s sporting celebrities0
‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image0
‘You’re really going to be fine’: celebrity cameos, Toast (2010) and the British biopic0
#blacklivesmatter in the WWE: professional wrestlers negotiating kayfabe and authentic rhetoric through online political engagement0
Being ‘real’ in a staged sport: the process and negotiation of authenticity in wrestling star images0
Cultural report: black lives matter and celebrity0
Marc Maron: comedic persona and the limits of laughing at politics0
‘You’ve got to thank toxic masculinity:’ Joe Rogan, crisis celebrity and cultural remasculinisation0
Correction0
Ferdinand the Third: historical revisionism and the celebrity construction of Sandro Marcos0
Female celebrities in digital age: the changing notions of stardom in Malayalam cinema0
Killing Conchita: celebrity persona (de/re)construction as artistic transformation0
Cultural report: Turkish celebrity dossier0
‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur -directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe0
Introduction: celebrity between invisibility and hypervisibility0
‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’0
Crisis and capitalism: discourses of British royal celebrity in the 21st century0
Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity0
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction0
Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties” myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic0
Taking the green pill? Keanu Reeves as ‘reluctant eco-celebrity’0
The politics of kinship: social credit, digital vigilantism, and celebrity governance in China0
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
“Somehow, Iger returned”: brand fandom, cultural intermediaries and the contested authorship of Disney’s celebrity CEOs0
Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities0
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
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna0
You live, you learn: celebrity aging, emotional expression, and femininity in Alanis Morissette’s star story0
‘Mulan’s legacy’ in contemporary Chinese women entrepreneurs: reading the image of Pansy Ho0
On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori0
‘Natalie Wood Day’: sexual violence and celebrity remembrance in the #MeToo Era0
‘Spill your guts or fill your guts’: Performative celebrity masochism and audience sadism in food challenge media0
Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer0
Interrogating machoism, male celebrity rivalry and digital fandom practices in Nigerian Hip Hop0
Crossover stardom on small screens: the case of Zhang Ziyi0
Just a famous actor sitting in front of a judge: Hugh Grant’s presentation of self in the Leveson inquiry0
Mainstreaming wanghong in the international press discourse0
Officially cancelled but eternally remembered: the queering paradox of Chinese comedic influencers through multi-platform mediation0
Chinese celebrity dossier: the politics of censorship governance0
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes0
‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg0
No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China0
‘Such emotional sterility proves ideal for the role’: Hugh Grant’s proto-celebrity and its media (self-)construction around Maurice0
Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy0
‘Enter the Brocktagon’: authenticity, artifice & the creation of the hybridised combat sports star0
Cultural Report: Black Lives Matter and celebrity [Part Two]0
Pop ubiquity: cameo performance as star management0
Exposing Russell Brand: navigating allegations of sexual misconduct and appealing to the manosphere0
Mother Teresa: the saint and her nation0
The Continental Exotic sex symbol – Gal Gadot0
Constructing a realm of memory for a deceased star in mainland China: Leslie Cheung and spirit tablets0
From grassroots to celebrities in healthcare– professionality as a new persona in China’s celebrity culture0
It is imperative and obtainable: the construction of confidence culture by female toubu vloggers on Xiaohongshu0
Keeping Thomas Pynchon private: the limits to studying an ‘anonymous’ celebrity0
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’0
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood0
Keanu Reeves, John Wick, and the myths and tensions between star brands and franchise properties0
Cem Yilmaz, national stardom, transnational comedy0
Trammelled stars: the non-autonomy of female K-pop idols0
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism0
Look what you made them do: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out0
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday0
RETRACTED ARTICLE: From Sacrificing Sister to Star Sister: The History of Queer Celebrity in Turkey0
Caught between China and Hollywood: the transnational journey of Jing Tian in The Great Wall (2016)0
Crisis, conflict and the affective politics of celebrity failure: Britney Spears, Meghan Markle and the spectacle of (misplaced) feminine fame0
“Ya’ll know this is just my opinion, right?”: Anthony Fantano’s cultivation of authenticity and digital celebrity through memes0
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era0
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand0
A star is made, not born: the production and reproduction of Mae West as a screen icon0
Renaissance man: Hugh Grant’s performance of class, white Englishness, and joyfully mature masculinity0
Death and celebrity: introduction0
Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila0
The memoir and the mediated self: the crafting and performance of Madhur Jaffrey’s persona in climbing the Mango Trees (2006)0
Conchita Montenegro and the Spanish press: from national pride to nationalist melodrama0
Global icon or national star?: interpreting the contested star image of BLACKPINK’s Lisa in a transnational context0
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices0
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Scandal maketh the man? The evolution of Hugh Grant and the celebrity confessional0
Global (post)feminist icon? Celebrity feminism, diplomacy, and Eileen Gu’s star persona in China and the US0
The changing nature of celebrity in musical theatre: the development of star casting0
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China0
Asymmetries of power in transnational literary celebrity: the case of Elif Shafak’s bilingual website0
Celebrity in the Time of Covid: Fandom and the Influence of Pandemic Messaging0
Starring Tom Cruise0
Jon Hamm’s post- Mad Men persona and representations of hegemonic masculinity0
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media: the case study of Trấn Thành0
Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity0
Asian cultures of authenticity: the authentic self narrative in sociological perspective or the case of Tóc Tiên’s celebrity biography0
Beyoncé in the world: making meaning with Queen Bey in troubled times0
Senses of an ending: Danish reactions to the death of Elvis Presley in 19770
Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman0
Political capital and stardom in China: the transnational persona of Choo Ja-hyun0
The politics of celebrity fandom in Asia dossier: introduction0
Fiction and reality entangled: Chinese ‘coupling’ (CP) fans pairing male celebrities forpleasure, comfort, andresponsibility0
Petty things and nemeses0
Sports celebrity to superhero: MS Dhoni, Indian cricket and the graphic novel0
Spectacular remains: Black celebrity, death and the aesthetics of autopsy0
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: Persona and promotion0
Black Lives Matter in London, June 2020: Patrick Hutchinson, instant celebrity, and changing discourses of race and class in British media0
From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators0
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism0
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: introduction0
Mom celebrities of Instagram: a literary analysis of momfluencing culture in Ellery Lloyd’s People Like Her (2021)0
History ‘for the gram’: AI beauty and the vintage, analogue, and ‘throwback’ celebrity0
The incredible, ageless Reeves: aging celebrity, aging fans, and nostalgia0
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity0
The cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: twenty-six short essays on a working star0
BTS for BLM: K-pop, Race, and Transcultural Fandom0
Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy0
Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism0
Names shredded apart: Banksy, pseudonymity, and fame0
Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame0
Frontline celebrities featured: investigating the most engaged Douyin videos during Xi’an lockdown0
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