Celebrity: Capitalism and the Making of Fame
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
: A - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS)
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management : A - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS)
- Output identifier
- 1447
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Polity Press
- ISBN
- 9780745641058
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the culmination of the author’s major area of study over 12 years. It sets out a complex thesis in considerable depth about the role of celebrity in the development of media entertainment capital. It investigates the relationship between celebrity and the commercialisation of culture in a variety of historical and contemporary contexts from Restoration theatre, to the news industry, to film, television and digital culture. This required a complex combination of methods of investigation and analysis from historical, archival research, content and semiotic analysis, to political and economic analyses of organisations and institutions covering over 200 years.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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