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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Playing with Blackness: critical race humour and the shifting dynamics of Black identity in South Korean media21
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K18
Labubu: the ugly-cute toy celebrity of mainland China’s sang culture16
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere12
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations9
Teen TV7
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’7
The animal celebrity phenomenon: Moo Deng and the digital construction of non-human fame6
Influencers as role models5
A socio-historical study of the emergence of celebrity culture in Iran: causes and roots5
The making of an Oceanic superhero: Dwayne Johnson, mixed identity, and non-conforming heroism in Black Adam (2022)5
Celebrity thirst traps: desire, play, and fandom5
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality5
Statement of Retraction: From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey5
Introduction: masculinity in crisis?4
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence4
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews4
Reconsidering the trainwreck: the racialised cultural revisionism of celebrity feminism4
‘Losing 640 million RMB with one finger’: Bai Baihe’s career crisis and the politicised star system in Xi’s era3
‘She really gets my blood boiling': moral judgements, dislike and celebrities3
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth3
The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal3
JK Rowling ’embodies the divisive and bigoted evil she once created a boy wizard to defeat’: investigating celebrified transphobia using field analysis and audience research3
Conceptualizing the ‘gossip genre’ in Nollywood: Digital Aestheticization of Celebrity Scandal and the Performance of Gossip in Truth or Dare3
The emerging national-style ‘husbandly sister’: the Yue opera cross-dressing performer Chen Lijun as a Chinese trans celebrity2
Taboo and celebrity: a cross-linguistic case study on Woody Allen and incest2
Retiring against time: media narratives of Momoe Yamaguchi’s ‘ageless myth’ and the ‘aging body’2
From father to son, from son to daughter: redefining celebrity activism through defiant Burmese voices2
‘Is Sivaji dead?’: doubling, star bodies and spectral histories in Tamil cinema2
Rebel, playboy, hero: Jins Shamsuddin and Malay film stardom in the 1960s2
What the Kendrick Lamar–Drake feud tells us about celebrity masculinities in online popular culture after #MeToo2
Exploring the rise of activism for LGBTQ+ rights in contemporary Thailand within Boys Love idol culture2
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: the personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris2
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise2
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller2
Fandom as multi-element citizenship: the dual politicisation of transnational K-pop fandom in China2
The holographic Atatürk: from commemorative pageantry to technological resurrection2
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers2
‘Bad vibes, forever?’: intersectionality, severity hedging and philanthropic redemption in the XXXTentacion fan community2
Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships1
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?1
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability1
Audio as star: rethinking celebrity beyond the visual1
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI1
Darshan , selfies, and the celebritisation of Bollywood stars in Australia1
‘Mulan’s legacy’ in contemporary Chinese women entrepreneurs: reading the image of Pansy Ho1
Algorithmic-driven exposure: hyper-saturation and ever-expansion in the content creator ecosystem1
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity1
Zhang Ce: small-town youth and auteur celebrity1
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How VTubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity1
A ‘local king’ in Taiwan: Jacky Wu, localised culture and celebrity entrepreneurship1
Disruptors in media rituals: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Playful Rebellion’ in converging television news1
The godly girlboss1
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies1
Attraction of knowledge celebrities: how they motivate users to pay for knowledge1
‘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
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand1
Governing Asian celebrity1
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines1
Translating the ‘untranslatable’: is it the way to become a translator celebrity?1
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity1
Crisis, conflict and the affective politics of celebrity failure: Britney Spears, Meghan Markle and the spectacle of (misplaced) feminine fame1
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
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia1
Glitching into popularity: an analysis of how K-pop fans conceptualise authenticity in virtual K-pop idols PLAVE and MAVE1
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey1
‘Somehow, Iger returned’: brand fandom, cultural intermediaries and the contested authorship of Disney’s celebrity CEOs1
Celebrification of transgender sportswomen through critical media coverage: the first step towards acknowledgement in Central European countries1
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna1
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity1
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
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