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Celebrity Crises and Conflicts Exploring Scandal, Failure and Misconduct

Edited By Gaston Franssen, Alice Leppert, Erin A. Meyers Copyright 2027

136 Pages

by Routledge

Description

Fame is fickle, as conventional wisdom has it, but in current times, celebrity seems to be in crisis more than ever. Sexual abuse scandals and the #MeToo movement have rocked the foundations of celebrity culture; media and AI developments have questioned the nature of the 'star' as a human figure; various forms of societal, cultural, and political polarisation have put celebrities under increased... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Celebrity crises and conflicts: introduction

Gaston Franssen, Alice Leppert and Erin A. Meyers

2. Crisis, conflict and the affective politics of celebrity failure: Britney Spears, Meghan Markle and the spectacle of (misplaced) feminine fame

Moya Luckett

3. Exposing Russell Brand: navigating allegations of sexual misconduct and appealing to the manosphere

Ellie Tomsett

4. ‘Somehow, Iger returned’: brand fandom, cultural intermediaries and the contested authorship of Disney’s celebrity CEOs

Rebecca Williams

5. ‘Losing 640 million RMB with one finger’: Bai Baihe’s career crisis and the politicised star system in Xi’s era

Liao Zhang and Ning Zhang

6. ‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur-directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe

Júlia Havas and Anna Mártonfi

7. ‘Bad vibes, forever?’: intersectionality, severity hedging and philanthropic redemption in the XXXTentacion fan community

Jenessa N. Williams

8. Crisis and capitalism: discourses of British royal celebrity in the 21st century

Nathalie Weidhase

Editor(s)

Biography

Gaston Franssen is Professor of Dutch Literary Studies and Intermediality at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Erin A. Meyers is Professor of Communication at Oakland University, USA.

Alice Leppert is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College, USA.

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