New Book Announcement

"Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity
Formation" edited by Spring-Serenity Duvall.
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64433?format=HC

Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity
Formation makes an examination of contemporary celebrity culture with an
emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured, how fan communities are
cultivated, and how young audiences consume and aspire to fame. This book
foregrounds considerations of diversity within celebrity and fan cultures,
and takes an international perspective on the production of stardom.
Chapters include interviews with professional athletes in the United States
about their experiences with stardom after coming out as gay, and
interviews with young people in Europe about their consumption of celebrity
and aspirations of achieving fame via social media. Other chapters include
interviews with young Canadian women that illuminate the potential
influence of famous feminists on audience political engagement, and
critical analysis of media narratives about race, happiness, cultural
appropriation, and popular feminisms. The current anthology brings together
scholarship from Canada, the United States, Spain, Belgium, and Portugal to
demonstrate the pervasive reach of global celebrity, as well as the
commonality of youth experiences with celebrity in diverse cultural
settings.

Reviews:

Offering both intersectional and international perspectives on young people
and contemporary celebrity culture, *Celebrity & Youth* is a rich
contribution to the fields of celebrity studies, youth studies, and media
studies. The chapters collected here are sure to expand our critical
understanding of not only young celebrities but also how young people
engage with fame as they explore, fashion, and perform their own
identities. ~ *Mary Celeste Kearney*, Director of Gender Studies and
Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of
Notre Dame

*Celebrity and Youth* is an outstanding contribution to the growing
literature on how conceptions of youth play a central role in the
production, circulation and reception of celebrity culture. Taking the
reader through various interconnecting strands of analysis including the
construction of young star images, the manufacture of youth as a desirable
and desiring subjectivity, and the ebbing  agency that is found within and
across fan communities, this volume places young people at the heart of why
and how celebrity matters. With fascinating case studies that take us from
the schools of Flanders to the vlogs of Portuguese micro-celebrities, from
the creativity of One Direction girl fan practices to the ‘come of age’
fans of Emma Watson, and from the colorblind politics of Kendall Jenner to
the First Children status of the Obama daughters, we find the most
brilliant forms of empirical, cultural, and contextual scholarship in
interaction. Why do young people want to be famous? Read this excellent,
timely volume for the complex answers we need. ~ *Sean Redmond*, Editor of
Celebrity Studies Journal and Professor of Screen and Design, Deakin
UniversityCelebrity and Youth offers a much-needed interdisciplinary
examination of the ways in which celebrity and its relationship to youth
and identity are both understood and reconfigured in a digital age. This
collection deftly illuminates how the construction and production of
cultural identity is so influenced by celebrity. Duvall presents a wide
range of essays which offer deeply insightful contemporary analyses of the
perspectives of young people as they navigate an increasingly complex
celebrity culture.~ *Kirsty Fairclough*, Associate Dean: Research and
Innovation School of Arts and Media University of Salford

Table of Contents:Introduction*By Spring-Serenity Duvall*Chapter 1: Social
Media Celebrities as Salient Resource for Preteens’ Identity Work*By
Annebeth Bels and Hilde Van den Bulck*Chapter 2: *WTF*: Digital ambassadors
for the young generation?*By Ana Jorge and Thays Nunes*Chapter 3: “INSANE
PREGNANCY PRANK ON BOYFRIEND!” Performing gender, domestic assault, and
sexism via couple’s prank videos on YouTube*By Jessica Birthisel*Chapter 4:
Adolescents as cultural activists: Remixing celebrities in fandom
communities*By Pilar Lacasa, Julián de la Fuente, Sara Cortés, María Ruth
García-Pernía*Chapter 5: Out in Play: Openly Gay Male Athletes Navigate
Media, Celebrity, and Fandom*By Leigh Moscowitz and Andrew C. Billings*Chapter
6: Believing in Emma Watson: Casual Fandom and Emerging Feminism in
Audience Support for the United Nations #HeForShe Campaign*By
Spring-Serenity Duvall*Chapter 7: Under Western (Girls’) Eyes: Cultural
Appropriation and Feminism in the Celebrity Fashion of Kendall Jenner and
Gigi Hadid*By Jessica E. Johnston*Chapter 8: All-American Girls: Examining
the Media Coverage of Malia and Sasha Obama as Young Political Celebrities*By
Newly Paul*Chapter 9: Getting “Out of the Woods” and Coming “Clean”:
Narrating Happiness in the Music and Celebrity of Taylor Swift*By Maghan
Molloy Jackson*


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Dr. Spring-Serenity Duvall
Associate Professor and Chair
Communication and Media Studies Department
Salem College
601 S. Church St.
Winston-Salem, NC
www.springserenityduvall.wordpress.com

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