Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen - Hardcover

Bennett, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415481880 ISBN 13: 9780415481885

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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).

Review:

"Television Personalities is going to be one of the defining texts in the fields of television, and celebrity studies. It is an outstanding piece of scholarship that is beautifully, accessibly written." - Sean Redmond, Celebrity Studies

"In this useful, thoughtful book, Bennett investigates a crucial element that has gone missing from our current understanding of television: precisely how it participates in the production and consumption of celebrity. He explores the longstanding assumptions about how television stardom works, making the book essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary television." - Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415481880
• ISBN 13: 9780415481885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240