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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References: p. [206]-215
Includes index
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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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