Celebrity Studies

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Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K	23
Playing with Blackness: critical race humour and the shifting dynamics of Black identity in South Korean media	17
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere	16
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations	13
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’	10
Teen TV	9
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images	8
A socio-historical study of the emergence of celebrity culture in Iran: causes and roots	8
Statement of Retraction: From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey	7
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality	7
Influencers as role models	7
The making of an Oceanic superhero: Dwayne Johnson, mixed identity, and non-conforming heroism in Black Adam (2022)	6
The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal	6
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood	5
Introduction: masculinity in crisis?	5
‘She really gets my blood boiling': moral judgements, dislike and celebrities	5
Reconsidering the trainwreck: the racialised cultural revisionism of celebrity feminism	5
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews	5
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence	5
Fandom as multi-element citizenship: the dual politicisation of transnational K-pop fandom in China	4
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller	4
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth	4
What the Kendrick Lamar–Drake feud tells us about celebrity masculinities in online popular culture after #MeToo	4
Rebel, playboy, hero: Jins Shamsuddin and Malay film stardom in the 1960s	4
Keanu’s late style: the ubiquitous art of short-form celebrity	4

‘Losing 640 million RMB with one finger’: Bai Baihe’s career crisis and the politicised star system in Xi’s era	4
Taboo and celebrity: a cross-linguistic case study on Woody Allen and incest	4
From father to son, from son to daughter: redefining celebrity activism through defiant Burmese voices	3
Exploring the rise of activism for LGBTQ+ rights in contemporary Thailand within Boys Love idol culture	3
The holographic Atatürk: from commemorative pageantry to technological resurrection	3
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: the personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris	3
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers	2
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise	2
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI	2
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame	2
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia	2
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies	2
‘Bad vibes, forever?’: intersectionality, severity hedging and philanthropic redemption in the XXXTentacion fan community	2
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability	2
Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines	2
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet	2
‘Is Sivaji dead?’: doubling, star bodies and spectral histories in Tamil cinema	2
The godly girlboss	2
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?	2
Disruptors in media rituals: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Playful Rebellion’ in converging television news	2
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship	2
Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships	1
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others	1
Governing Asian celebrity	1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity	1
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)	1
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey	1
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity	1
A ‘local king’ in Taiwan: Jacky Wu, localised culture and celebrity entrepreneurship	1
Darshan , selfies, and the celebritisation of Bollywood stars in Australia	1
Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How VTubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity	1
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest	1
Ecological Wunderkind and heroic trollhunter: the celebrity saga of Greta Thunberg	1
Attraction of knowledge celebrities: how they motivate users to pay for knowledge	1
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
Hollywood stardom, glamour shots and poetry in 1930s Portugal: the cinephile poems of António Botto	1
‘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 India	1
Keanu Reeves’ body as battleground	1
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor: perfection as the prerequisite for visibility, commodification and activism	1
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)	1
Translating the ‘untranslatable’: is it the way to become a translator celebrity?	1
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies	1
Zhang Ce: small-town youth and auteur celebrity	1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych	1
‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image	0
#blacklivesmatter in the WWE: professional wrestlers negotiating kayfabe and authentic rhetoric through online political engagement	0
Reimagining Leslie Cheung through Hanyuan Bookstore: the posthumous personalities of the queer Hong Kong celebrity	0
Celebrity in the Time of Covid: Fandom and the Influence of Pandemic Messaging	0
Cultural report: black lives matter and celebrity	0
Marc Maron: comedic persona and the limits of laughing at politics	0

‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’	0
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China	0
‘You’ve got to thank toxic masculinity:’ Joe Rogan, crisis celebrity and cultural remasculinisation	0
Female celebrities in digital age: the changing notions of stardom in Malayalam cinema	0
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: Persona and promotion	0
Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism	0
Senses of an ending: Danish reactions to the death of Elvis Presley in 1977	0
Ferdinand the Third: historical revisionism and the celebrity construction of Sandro Marcos	0
Mainstreaming wanghong in the international press discourse	0
Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman	0
Jordan Peterson’s hollow core	0
Officially cancelled but eternally remembered: the queering paradox of Chinese comedic influencers through multi-platform mediation	0
Cem Yilmaz, national stardom, transnational comedy	0
Mom celebrities of Instagram: a literary analysis of momfluencing culture in Ellery Lloyd’s People Like Her (2021)	0
A star is made, not born: the production and reproduction of Mae West as a screen icon	0
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices	0
Celebrity crises and conflicts: introduction to the 2024 conference special issue	0
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’	0
From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators	0
You live, you learn: celebrity aging, emotional expression, and femininity in Alanis Morissette’s star story	0
Correction	0
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction	0
Names shredded apart: Banksy, pseudonymity, and fame	0
Keeping Thomas Pynchon private: the limits to studying an ‘anonymous’ celebrity	0
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity	0
‘Ya’ll know this is just my opinion, right?’: Anthony Fantano’s cultivation of authenticity and digital celebrity through memes	0
‘Mulan’s legacy’ in contemporary Chinese women entrepreneurs: reading the image of Pansy Ho	0
Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities	0
BTS for BLM: K-pop, Race, and Transcultural Fandom	0
Renaissance man: Hugh Grant’s performance of class, white Englishness, and joyfully mature masculinity	0
Interrogating machoism, male celebrity rivalry and digital fandom practices in Nigerian Hip Hop	0
Scandal maketh the man? The evolution of Hugh Grant and the celebrity confessional	0
Trammelled stars: the non-autonomy of female K-pop idols	0
Chinese celebrity dossier: the politics of censorship governance	0
‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg	0
Global (post)feminist icon? Celebrity feminism, diplomacy, and Eileen Gu’s star persona in China and the US	0
‘Such emotional sterility proves ideal for the role’: Hugh Grant’s proto-celebrity and its media (self-)construction around Maurice	0
‘Enter the Brocktagon’: authenticity, artifice & the creation of the hybridised combat sports star	0
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes	0
Cultural Report: Black Lives Matter and celebrity [Part Two]	0
Pop ubiquity: cameo performance as star management	0
Exposing Russell Brand: navigating allegations of sexual misconduct and appealing to the manosphere	0
Spectacular remains: Black celebrity, death and the aesthetics of autopsy	0
‘You’re really going to be fine’: celebrity cameos, Toast (2010) and the British biopic	0
Being ‘real’ in a staged sport: the process and negotiation of authenticity in wrestling star images	0
From grassroots to celebrities in healthcare– professionality as a new persona in China’s celebrity culture	0
The incredible, ageless Reeves: aging celebrity, aging fans, and nostalgia	0
‘Natalie Wood Day’: sexual violence and celebrity remembrance in the #MeToo Era	0
Killing Conchita: celebrity persona (de/re)construction as artistic transformation	0
Constructing a realm of memory for a deceased star in mainland China: Leslie Cheung and spirit tablets	0
Marilyn Monroe’s mystery house: reappraising Fifth Helena Drive	0
Look what you made them do: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out	0
Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy	0
Introduction: celebrity between invisibility and hypervisibility	0
Taking the green pill? Keanu Reeves as ‘reluctant eco-celebrity’	0
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism	0
Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline , edited by Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael, Renee Middlemost, and Jessica Balanzategui	0
Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity	0
Editor’s introduction: professional wrestling and authenticity	0
‘The photograph is handsome, as is the boy’: the ‘hot felony’ of Luigi Mangione	0
Caught between China and Hollywood: the transnational journey of Jing Tian in The Great Wall (2016)	0
The Continental Exotic sex symbol – Gal Gadot	0
‘Somehow, Iger returned’: brand fandom, cultural intermediaries and the contested authorship of Disney’s celebrity CEOs	0
‘Spill your guts or fill your guts’: Performative celebrity masochism and audience sadism in food challenge media	0
Fiction and reality entangled: Chinese ‘coupling’ (CP) fans pairing male celebrities forpleasure, comfort, andresponsibility	0
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna	0
RETRACTED ARTICLE: From Sacrificing Sister to Star Sister: The History of Queer Celebrity in Turkey	0
Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame	0
The cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: twenty-six short essays on a working star	0
Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer	0
Death and celebrity: introduction	0
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday	0
Global icon or national star?: interpreting the contested star image of BLACKPINK’s Lisa in a transnational context	0
The changing nature of celebrity in musical theatre: the development of star casting	0
Asymmetries of power in transnational literary celebrity: the case of Elif Shafak’s bilingual website	0
Just a famous actor sitting in front of a judge: Hugh Grant’s presentation of self in the Leveson inquiry	0
No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China	0
Starring Tom Cruise	0
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media: the case study of Trấn Thành	0
Satire or submission? Heteropessimism and Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend	0

Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity	0
Beyoncé in the world: making meaning with Queen Bey in troubled times	0
Keanu Reeves, John Wick, and the myths and tensions between star brands and franchise properties	0
Jon Hamm’s post- Mad Men persona and representations of hegemonic masculinity	0
Mother Teresa: the saint and her nation	0
Asian cultures of authenticity: the authentic self narrative in sociological perspective or the case of Tóc Tiên’s celebrity biography	0
Political capital and stardom in China: the transnational persona of Choo Ja-hyun	0
Tarkan’s Geççek from a celebrity capital perspective: the reflection of the political polarisation in post-pandemic Turkey in the reception of a pop song	0
Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila	0
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism	0
Crisis and capitalism: discourses of British royal celebrity in the 21st century	0
It is imperative and obtainable: the construction of confidence culture by female toubu vloggers on Xiaohongshu	0
Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties” myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic	0
Crossover stardom on small screens: the case of Zhang Ziyi	0
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood	0
Black Lives Matter in London, June 2020: Patrick Hutchinson, instant celebrity, and changing discourses of race and class in British media	0
Introduction to the special issue on social media influencers: performance, authenticity, and social media visibility	0
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era	0
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction	0
Sports celebrity to superhero: MS Dhoni, Indian cricket and the graphic novel	0
The politics of kinship: social credit, digital vigilantism, and celebrity governance in China	0
Razor-sharp charms: Hugh Grant’s image renegotiation and the turn to villains	0
Cultural report: Turkish celebrity dossier	0
Crisis, conflict and the affective politics of celebrity failure: Britney Spears, Meghan Markle and the spectacle of (misplaced) feminine fame	0
The memoir and the mediated self: the crafting and performance of Madhur Jaffrey’s persona in climbing the Mango Trees (2006)	0
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: introduction	0
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand	0
History ‘for the gram’: AI beauty and the vintage, analogue, and ‘throwback’ celebrity	0
Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy	0
Frontline celebrities featured: investigating the most engaged Douyin videos during Xi’an lockdown	0
Chinese celebrity and Wanghong economy: diversification, motivation and capitalisation	0
On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori	0
Introduction	0
‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur -directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe	0
The politics of celebrity fandom in Asia dossier: introduction	0