Television personalities : stardom and the small screen
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Television personalities : stardom and the small screen
Routledge, 2011
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
References: p. [206]-215
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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