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{"title":"Crossover stardom on small screens: the case of Zhang Ziyi","authors":"Shaohua Guo","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2120409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2120409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Arguably no Chinese stars have sparked as much domestic controversy as Zhang Ziyi, nor have any achieved the same level of international recognition. Amid a growing interest in the study of East Asian stars, existing scholarship has addressed, at length, the major controversies that have surrounded Zhang Ziyi. However, little attention has been paid to the changing construction of Zhang’s star persona in recent years, during which time she has begun to assume a more active role in television and on social media platforms. This article addresses this gap in literature and explores the ways in which Zhang Ziyi has reinvented her image using emerging media practices, including making use of television genres, Weibo entries, and WeChat public accounts. Zhang’s foray into small screen entertainment is not only useful for understanding the role that television and digital media play in reconstructing film stardom, but it also showcases the drastic changes in media ecologies that have occurred over the past decade in China.","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45054852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies","authors":"Djoymi Baker, J. Balanzategui, Diana Sandars","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2109302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109302","url":null,"abstract":"This Special Issue seeks to contribute to the developing field of child celebrity studies by offering new ways of thinking about the interface between social constructs of childhood and celebrity culture. The Issue elucidates how child celebrities have been, and continue to be, crucial to the complex conceptual apparatus that constitutes ‘the child’. We begin this Special Issue with an invitation to reconsider how childhood studies can productively be brought into dialogue with celebrity studies in ways that illuminate how child celebrities and stars operate as palimpsests upon which traces of former child stars are marked. Following Hugh Cunningham’s caution that, ‘we need to distinguish between children as human beings and childhood as a shifting set of ideas’ (2005, p. 1), we identify child stars as a particularly fraught locus for these shifting concepts because they are regulated by a system of perpetual replacement. In this process of succession, new child performers – and the ideas about childhood they embody – are mapped over former child stars as they fade into obscurity or transform into adult stars. Childhood is not a universal phenomenon but a social construction that varies greatly across cultures and eras, demarcated by the arrival of adulthood in different and often inconsistent ways (McCue 2018). The development of ‘childhood’ in the West from the 19th century onwards is beset with ‘far too many contradictions’ (Bruhm 2006, p. 98) to reconcile, and, as this Issue highlights, child stars and celebrities embody, narrativize and navigate these contradictions as they are laid over one another. Indeed, the child star is one of the most significant and high-profile means by which the concept of the child is culturally imagined and worked through. Chris Rojek (2001, p. 17) identifies the role of lineage in the construction of celebrity using the children of royal families as an example of ascribed celebrity. We argue that in the commodified constructions of child celebrity and the child star, the concept of lineage exceeds bloodlines via the perpetual replacement of the child star system, and is instead constituted by a layering of personal and cultural histories and generational and national discourses. This form of child celebrity lineage provides a framework through which to understand how the palimpestic operations of child stardom illuminate the deep but fluid ideological structures of ‘the child’ as a cultural concept.","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42649448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era","authors":"Djoymi Baker, J. Balanzategui","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2109307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109307","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Disney is a brand long associated with the production of family content and a continually replenished suite of child stars. The 2019 launch of Disney+ leveraged these heritage child stars in its tightly curated home page, stressing nostalgia and a wholesome brand image around the figure of the child. This article explores how the Disney+ interface aesthetics, catalogue organisation and other paratexts negotiate heritage child stars in the context of managing the Disney brand narrative in the streaming era. Streaming interfaces offer a new form of star ephemera, as former child stars are recontextualised under new thematic banners on Disney+. However, this careful curation on the Disney+ interface is ultimately unable to contain the instability of child stars as emblems of lost youth, a tension that becomes particularly evident in the case of Lindsay Lohan and Macaulay Culkin.","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41907480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’","authors":"Leigh H. Edwards","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2116586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2116586","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Singer-songwriter Dolly Parton has increasingly been using transmedia storytelling in a distinctive way, by retelling some of her signature songs in new contexts and turning them into television movies and series rooted in her autobiography. Her expansion of her classic songs into new texts on different media platforms illuminates recent trends in how star images are evolving. It reflects how Parton joins other musicians in marketing their star image as a brand, part of a neoliberal branding of the star as entrepreneurial self. Parton often merges her life story with narratives in her lyrics, drawing on her autobiography for storytelling and personal mythology. She uses her life narrative extensively in her projection of authenticity, fashioning a stage persona and media image featuring a particular version of sincerity. This essay focuses on two recent examples of retold Parton songs, the ‘9 to 5’ advertisement and an episode of the Netflix television series based on her earlier song ‘Two Doors Down’ (1977). Through historicised textual analysis and discussion of cultural theory, the essay shows the evolution of her authenticity narrative, how her transmedia storytelling illuminates trends of musicians marketed as brands, and how her star image generates new meanings via retold songs.","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45101633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Names shredded apart: Banksy, pseudonymity, and fame","authors":"Sofia Pinto","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2115707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2115707","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46143023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna","authors":"S. Hopkins","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2115706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2115706","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46915027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cem Yilmaz, national stardom, transnational comedy","authors":"Mert Örsler","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2109296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cem Yılmaz’s comedic persona is unique in interweaving Turkish film history and Anglophone popular culture across multiple media platforms. This persona has almost become synonymous with comedy in Turkey. Placing an emphasis on Yılmaz as a reflection of the nation’s transnational media consumption, the present article offers a closer look at how different media texts contribute to Yılmaz’s multimedia stardom.","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46344604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg","authors":"F. Chaplin","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2109306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The relationship between Charlotte Gainsbourg and her father Serge Gainsbourg has almost mythical status in French culture and since childhood Charlotte has been widely considered the most famous daughter of a celebrity in France. From their provocative song and film collaborations in the 1980s, to Charlotte’s engagement with her father’s legacy in her own artistic output, the filial coupling of Charlotte and Serge is frequently referenced in commentaries and criticisms of both their work together and of Charlotte’s work after Serge’s death. Drawing on the concept of celebrity filial coupling, dynasty stardom, and the incest narrative and its gothic treatment in their work, this article examines the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg as it is established in their artistic collaboration in the mid-1980s and articulated in Charlotte’s later career. It aims to make an original contribution to the nascent scholarship on kinship celebrity by offering a reading of an emblematic filial couple within a French cultural context.","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48019213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality","authors":"Kristen Hatch","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2109305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the 1970s, child actress and model Brooke Shields became a flashpoint for the crisis over child sexuality and paedophilia. Shields’s disturbing marriage of a child’s body with a womanly face disrupted the iconography of childhood that had flourished since the Enlightenment and pointed towards a new paradigm that has become more prominent in the decades since. This article examines how child liberationist views that children are sexual beings helped to shape Shields’s public image as an object of adult male desire, even as her celebrity became a vector for the emerging feminist argument that children must be protected from adult desire. Through discourse about Shields, artists, journalists, and others articulated opposing logics for understanding the newly sexualised child and helped lay the foundation for contemporary debates about children in visual culture.","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44617597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman","authors":"B. Judd, Diana Sandars","doi":"10.1080/19392397.2022.2109308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109308","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The ‘Goodes saga’ in Australian Football transformed Adam Goodes’ persona as a dutiful son of the sport into a polarising celebrity, most infamously through an encounter with a female teenage fan. In this article, we argue that the ‘Goodes saga’ exposed the contested nature of Indigenous celebrity stemming from settler anxieties about the unruly child and Indigenous statesman. Goodes transformed from a sports star, a dutiful ‘son’ of the sport to the national celebrity of a political statesman – a position of adulthood that might be described as characteristic of Eldership. Goodes’ self-manufactured celebrity persona, based in his concept of Indigeneity as ‘having a foot in both worlds’, was enacted through his mission to incorporate Indigenous cultural practices into the sport and wider settler-Australian culture. These actions were persistently disparaged through recourses to Euro-centric concept of the child and childhood as a state of innocence. We prompt readers to consider why the settler-public and its national institutions like the Australian Football League are so invested with surrounding Indigenous stars with a discourse of childhood. Why might the AFL and settler society more broadly consider the possibility that Aboriginal men might ascend to adulthood such a terrifying proposition?","PeriodicalId":46401,"journal":{"name":"Celebrity Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45845191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}