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| Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture |
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| Volume 2(2), 2005 |
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| CONTENTS |
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Holmes, Su |
'Starring...Dyer?': Re-visiting star studies and contemporary celebrity culture |
6-21 |
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| | Responding to the apparently ubiquitous interest in contemporary fame, the last ten years has seen an expansion of academic work on stardom/celebrity, whether in film, media and cultural studies or beyond | |
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popular culture
higher education
methodology
intercultural
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McNicholas, Anthony |
"EastEnders" and the manufacture of celebrity |
22-36 |
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| | When "EastEnders" launched in February 1985 it represented a new approach by the BBC to programme making in many ways | |
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international development
television
public relations
advertising
newspaper
print journalism
broadcasting and media
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Palmer, Gareth |
The undead: Life on the D-list |
37-53 |
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| | Over the last twenty years the multiplying demands of media outlets have created a demand for new celebrities | |
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television
print journalism
popular culture
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Muir, Kathie |
Media darlings and falling stars: Celebrity and the reporting of political leaders |
54-71 |
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| | The combined influences of three current trends in news reporting: tabloidization, personalisation, and the commercial pressures of competing for declining audiences, together with the increasingly mediated nature of politics, has had a marked change on the way politics is performed and reported in most Western democracies | |
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news
politics and government
presidential figures
gender
Pacific Rim
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Hockett, Jeremy |
Brand "W" and the marketing of an American President: Or, logos as logos |
72-96 |
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| | The title of this essay plays off Frederic Jameson's book title, "Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" | |
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politics and government
political elections
persuasion
presidential figures
rhetoric
semiotic theory
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Coelho, Maria Claudia |
Experiencing television fandom: Notes on the tension between singularization and massification in Brazil |
97-112 |
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| | This paper examines the way fandom is experienced in Brazil | |
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south America
metaphor
popular culture
rhetoric
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