James Bennett

Television Personalities (eBook, ePUB)

Stardom and the Small Screen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136907470
• Artikelnr.: 43072975

Autorenporträt

Dr. James Bennett is Head of Area for Media, Information and Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK. His work focuses upon digital, interactive television and TV fame in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in Screen, Cinema Journal, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Convergence and Celebrity Studies Journal. He is co-editor of Film and Television after DVDs (with Tom Brown, 2008) and Television as Digital Media (with Niki Strange, forthcoming, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

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