Bennett Television Personalities

Stardom and the Small Screen
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-136-90747-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies, as well as those interested in digital culture more widely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction Chapter 1. The television personality system Part 1: ‘TV must train its own stars’: The invention of the television personality Chapter 2. An ‘irreconcilable opposition’: Music hall, radio and the emergence of televisual skill Chapter 3. ‘Too much glamour?’: Glamour, gender and ‘in-vision’ announcers Part 2: ‘‘Oooh, I’m an entertainer. it’s what I do’: Political economy, performance and pleasure Chapter 4. ‘You don’t know anyone. ’: The political economy of television fame Chapter 5. The art of ‘being yourself’: Pleasure, meaning and achievement in performance Part 3: The television personality system revisited: Ideology, multiplatform and DIY fame Chapter 6. Just ‘an ordinary bloke’: National identity and ideology Chapter 7. Get Internet famous! (Even if you’re nobody)’: Multiplatform fame and the television personality system in the digital era Conclusion Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. James Bennett is Head of Area for Media, Information and Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK. His work focuses upon digital, interactive television and TV fame in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in Screen, Cinema Journal, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Convergence and Celebrity Studies Journal. He is co-editor of Film and Television after DVDs (with Tom Brown, 2008) and Television as Digital Media (with Niki Strange, forthcoming, 2011).