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 InfoNew York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Description222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013034888
ISBN9781441102386 (HB)

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