The Star and Celebrity Confessional - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138879630 ISBN 13: 9781138879638

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

In this book the different manifestations, meanings, and processes of the star and celebrity confessional will be explored. 
The confessional is taken to be any moment in which a star, celebrity, or fan engages in revelatory acts that are considered to be authentic, heart-felt, and honest. These confessional encounters can take place in an interview, through performance and presentation events, online, and in ‘unscripted’ encounters. A star may break down in tears, or reveal a previously unknown truth about their private life. However, this authenticity is often found to have been manufactured, or is timed to occur against a new release or product launch. Alternatively, the desire to confess may be seen to draw attention to the centrality of pseudo forms of emotion in contemporary culture and the obsessional behaviour it produces.  In this book authors consider acts of confession by celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, Jade Goody, Britney Spears, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tracey Emin, and Russell Crowe.

About this title

About the Author:

Sean Redmond is Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of wellington. He is editor of Celebrity Studies, and co-editor of Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (Routledge, 2006). He is presently working on the monographs Celebrity and the Media, and Emotional Celebrity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138879630
• ISBN 13: 9781138879638
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Redmond Sean