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RR/2016/247 A Companion to Celebrity Edited by P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond Wiley Blackwell Malden, MA and Oxford 2016 xvii + 557 pp. ISBN 978 1 118 47501 0 (print); ISBN 978 1 118 47492 1 (e-book) £120 $195 (print); £108.99 $156.99 (e-book)
In an age when celebrities are created after 5 min in front of a television camera or through a video going viral on the internet, most people would be forgiven for thinking that both the word and the status have lost all meaning and impact. According to the editors of this Companion , however, "the study of celebrity is one of the fastest growing areas of contemporary academic scholarship", and the culture of celebrity "endures as a remarkable social, cultural, economic and, perhaps surprisingly, political phenomenon". In an informative new reference guide, P. David Marshall, author of Celebrity and Power (Marshall, 2014), and, Sean Redmond, joint editor of Framing Celebrity (Holmes and Redmond, 2006), together with over 20 international academic contributors, aim to cast...