Real lives, celebrity stories narratives of ordinary and extraordinary people across media / edited by Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round.
| Other author | Thomas, Bronwen. |
| Other author | Round, Julia. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. |
| Description | 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013034888 |
| ISBN | 9781441102386 (HB) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |