Real lives, celebrity stories : narratives of ordinary and extraordinary people across media /: narratives of ordinary and extraordinary people across media. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round.
• Other Names: Thomas, Bronwen editor of compilation.; Round, Julia editor of compilation.
• Contents: Introduction / Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round -- Stories we live by -- Storying cyberspace: narratives and metaphors/ Sue Thomas -- Me and you and everyone we know: the centrality of character in understanding media texts / Craig Batty -- Transforming the ordinary/everyday. The good, the bad and the healthy: the transforming body and narratives of health and beauty in reality tv / Peri Bradley -- Competence in your own enactment: subjectivity and the theorization of participatory art / Simon Grennan -- The transformations of Harvey Pekar's American splendor: "ordinary life is pretty complex stuff" / Julia Round -- The politics of representing real people. Narratives of trauma re-lived: the ethnographer's paradox and other tales / Marina Lambrou -- Autobiography and political marketing: narrative and the Obama brand / Darren G. Lilleker -- Merging fact and fiction: cult celebrity, film narrative and the Henry Lee Lucas story / Shaun Kimber -- Celebrity lives reimagined. Fans behaving badly? real person fic and the blurring of the boundaries between the public and the private / Bronwen Thomas -- Remembering Frank Sinatra: celebrity studies meets memory studies / Roberta Pearson.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 305.52; Popular culture; Celebrities in mass media; Mass media and culture; Fame -- Social aspects; Popular culture -- Social aspects; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441197153
• Related ISBNs: 144119715X
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