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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere19
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K16
Playing with Blackness: critical race humour and the shifting dynamics of Black identity in South Korean media11
‘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
A socio-historical study of the emergence of celebrity culture in Iran: causes and roots8
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations8
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images7
Influencers as role models6
Teen TV6
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews5
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality5
The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal4
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood4
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth4
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence4
Keanu’s late style: the ubiquitous art of short-form celebrity4
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller3
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: the personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris3
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers3
Exploring the rise of activism for LGBTQ+ rights in contemporary Thailand within Boys Love idol culture3
Rebel, playboy, hero: Jins Shamsuddin and Malay film stardom in the 1960s3
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
Fandom as multi-element citizenship: the dual politicisation of transnational K-pop fandom in China3
The art of attracting attention: a process model of Chinese toubu vloggers’ strategies to create online identities and self-brands3
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s online concert 20202
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?2
Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines2
Disruptors in media rituals: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Playful Rebellion’ in converging television news2
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame2
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet2
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
Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics2
The godly girlboss2
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies2
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia2
‘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
Keanu Reeves’ body as battleground1
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest1
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others1
Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships1
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity1
Darshan , selfies, and the celebritisation of Bollywood stars in Australia1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity1
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor: perfection as the prerequisite for visibility, commodification and activism1
Ecological Wunderkind and heroic trollhunter: the celebrity saga of Greta Thunberg1
‘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
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
Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How VTubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity1
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Governing Asian celebrity1
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity1
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 methodologies1
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
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
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)1
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)1
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