1. Celebrity and modernity : the historical pattern of celebrity
Man as actor / Richard Sennett
The longing of Alexander / Leo Braudy
The sociology of charismatic authority ; The nature of charismatic authority and its routinization / Max Weber
From hero to celebrity : the human pseudo-event / Daniel J. Boorstin
The discourse on acting / Richard de Cordova
The powerless 'elite' : theory and sociological research on the phenomenon of the stars / Francesco Alberoni
The triumph of mass idols / Leo Lowenthal
Stars as images / Richard Dyer
2. The textual and the extra-textual dimensions of the public persona
Television's 'personality system' / John Langer
The meanings of the popular music celebrity : the construction of distinctive authenticity / P. David Marshall
Is straight the new queer? David Beckham and the dialectics of celebrity / Momin Rahman
Articulating stardom / Barry King
Feminine fascinations : a question of identification? / Jackie Stacey
Australian idol and the attention economy / Charles Fairchild
Reading gossip magazines : the imagined communities of 'gossip' and 'camp' / Joke Hermes
3. Ascribed celebrity : the transformed public sphere
Intimately intertwined in the most public way : celebrity and journalism / P. David Marshall
The reign of hype : the contemporary (literary) star system / Joe Moran
America's new son : Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism / C.L. Cole and David L. Andrews
The celebrity politician : political style and popular culture / John Street
Academostars : name recognition / Jeffrey J. Williams
Celebrity and religion / Chris Rojek
Phantasmagoric labor : the new economics of self-presentation / Ernest Sternberg.
4. Transgression : scandal, notoriety and infamy
Investigating the serial killer : the seeking of origins / Richard Tithecott
(Don't) leave me alone : tabloid narrative and the Michael Jackson child-abuse scandal / Stephen Hinerman
The quest for fame / David Giles
Celebrity, the tabloid and the democratic public sphere / Graeme Turner
The celebrity legacy of The Beatles / P. David Marshall
Exemplary differences : mourning (and not mourning) a princess / Richard Johnson
Vanishing point / Catharine Lumby
5. Narcissism, fandom and the will to celebrity
I don't have a great body, but I play one on tv : the celebrity guide to fitness and weight loss in the United States / Elizabeth Arveda Kissling
Beauty and the female body / Kathy Davis
Is there a fan in the house? The affective sensibility of fandom / Lawrence Grossberg
"I'll be here with you" : fans, fantasy and the figure of Elvis / Stephen Hinerman
The psychology of achieved celebrity / Chris Rojek
"John, a 20-year-old Boston native with a great sense of humor" : on the spectacularization of the "self" and the incorporation of identity in the age of reality television / Alison Hearn
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6. The celebrity industry : the management of fame
The private ownership of people / Kembrew McLeod
Walter Winchell : stardom / Neal Gabler
The negotiated celebration / Joshua Gamson
Author(iz)ing the celebrity : engendering alternative identities / Rosemary Coombe
Producing celebrity / Graeme Turner, Frances Bonner and P. David Marshall.
