Mapping the stars : celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity /
Analyzes the public images of Norman Rockwell, Will Smith and Kim Kardashian across movie posters, magazines, cinema and social media and deploys a rhetorical study of celebrity to challenge normative ideas about how we form selfhood, including conceptions of gender, race and sexuality.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Analyzes the public images of Norman Rockwell, Will Smith and Kim Kardashian across movie posters, magazines, cinema and social media and deploys a rhetorical study of celebrity to challenge normative ideas about how we form selfhood, including conceptions of gender, race and sexuality. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 248 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814215500 0814215505 9780814258804 0814258808 |