Celebrity Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Celebrity Studies is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?29
Sports celebrity to superhero: MS Dhoni, Indian cricket and the graphic novel18
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday10
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies10
Keanu Reeves’ body as battleground8
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction8
Introduction8
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K7
Infamous bodies: early black women’s celebrity and the afterlives of rights5
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)5
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability4
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction4
From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators4
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism4
The godly girlboss4
Introduction: celebrity between invisibility and hypervisibility3
Reimagining Leslie Cheung through Hanyuan Bookstore: the posthumous personalities of the queer Hong Kong celebrity3
#ModiWithAkshay: ‘Brand Modi’, social media and Bollywood star power3
Editor’s introduction: professional wrestling and authenticity3
Trammelled stars: the non-autonomy of female K-pop idols3
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest3
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere3
Teen TV2
Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity2
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism2
‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria2
Disruptors in media rituals: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Playful Rebellion’ in converging television news2
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity2
Introduction to the special issue on social media influencers: performance, authenticity, and social media visibility2
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor: perfection as the prerequisite for visibility, commodification and activism2
Spectacular remains: Black celebrity, death and the aesthetics of autopsy2
It is imperative and obtainable: the construction of confidence culture by female toubu vloggers on Xiaohongshu2
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations2
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes2
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise2
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’2
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s online concert 20202
‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’2
Work that body: male bodies in digital culture1
Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman1
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood1
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet1
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’1
Cultural report: Turkish celebrity dossier1
Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism1
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame1
Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities1
Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy1
The concept of an ‘anticelebrity’: a new type of antihero of the media age and its impact on modern politics1
Asian celebrities and the pandemic: misreading the room? A perspective from India1
The Continental Exotic sex symbol – Gal Gadot1
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna1
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: introduction1
A Touch More with Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird: authenticity, intimacy and women’s sports celebrity on Instagram live1
Renaissance man: Hugh Grant’s performance of class, white Englishness, and joyfully mature masculinity1
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI1
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images1
‘You’re really going to be fine’: celebrity cameos, Toast (2010) and the British biopic1
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand1
Keeping Thomas Pynchon private: the limits to studying an ‘anonymous’ celebrity1
Queer and insufficiently Spanish: tensions of gender and national identity around the transnational stardom of Luis Mariano1
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