1st Edition
Imagining Innocence Celebrity, Stardom and the Child
Introduction: The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies
Djoymi Baker, Jessica Balanzategui and Diana Sandars
1. ‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews
Brett Farmer
2. Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller
Anna Debinski
3. ‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality
Kristen Hatch
4. ‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg
Felicity Chaplin
5. Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era
Djoymi Baker and Jessica Balanzategui
6. Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman
Barry Judd and Diana Sandars
7. Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’
Joanna McIntyre, Damien W. Riggs and Clare Bartholomaeus
8. Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity
Eva Maria Schörgenhuber
Biography
Djoymi Baker is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cinema Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Jessica Balanzategui is Associate Professor in Media, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Diana Sandars is a lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
