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Mapping the stars : celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Claire Sisco (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Rockwell, Norman, > 1894-1978 > Criticism and interpretation.
Smith, Will, > 1968-
Kardashian, Kim, > 1980-
Celebrities > Social aspects.
Celebrities in popular culture.
Celebrities in mass media.
Fame > Social aspects.
Metonyms > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Six degrees of subjectification: theorizing and practicing metonymy
  • American queerer: Norman Rockwell and the art of queer feminist critique
  • Interstitial 1: A chapter on AIDS
  • Terms and conditions: reflections on and of Black fame in the case of Will Smith
  • Interstitial 2: The eyes have had it
  • Emotional icons: digital culture, networks of affect, and Kim Kardashian.