Celebrity Studies

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use Oxford spelling|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox journal | image = Celebrity Studies cover.jpg | abbreviation = Celebr. Stud. | discipline = Cultural studies | editor = Erin Meyers and Alice Leppert | publisher = Routledge | country = | history = 2010–present | frequency = Quarterly | openaccess = Hybrid | license = CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY | impact = 0.9 | impact-year = 2021 | ISSN = 1939-2397 | eISSN = 1939-2400 | LCCN = 2007214518 | OCLC = 156875338 | website = https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcel20 | link1 = https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcel20/current | link1-name = Online access | link2 = https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcel20 | link2-name = Online archive }} '''''Celebrity Studies''''' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge which focuses on the "critical exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame".<ref name=":6">{{cite web |last=Corbyn |first=Zoë |date=25 February 2010 |title=Stardom and the spirit of the age |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/stardom-and-the-spirit-of-the-age/410543.article |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=Times Higher Education |language=en |issn=0049-3929}}</ref> Founded in 2010 by media studies academics Sean Redmond (University of Victoria) and Su Holmes (University of East Anglia), ''Celebrity Studies'' is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the study of celebrity. The debut of the journal reflects a growing scholarly interest in the field following the proliferation of research on celebrity since the 2000s. Upon its announcement, the journal was met with negative media and academic reception. The journal has since helped legitimize the study of celebrity and is regarded as the preeminent journal in its field. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) shortlisted ''Celebrity Studies'' for the Best New Journal award in 2011.

Notable studies published in the journal include analyses on Pippa Middleton's buttocks, the history and influence of "climate contrarians", and Meghan Markle's relationship with feminism. Special issues of the journal have been devoted to singers David Bowie and Michael Jackson, actor Keanu Reeves, and reality television series ''RuPaul's Drag Race.'' The journal also sponsors an international biennial conference. Prior conferences took place at universities in Melbourne, London, Amsterdam, and Rome. The journal's current editors-in-chief include Erin Meyers (Oakland University) and Alice Leppert (Ursinus College).

== History ==

=== Creation === The field of "celebrity studies" emerged in academia in the 2000s coinciding with a wave of celebrity in popular culture.<ref>{{cite book |last=Littler |first=Jo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lEW2BQAAQBAJ |title=The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture |date=5 December 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-17595-4 |editor-last=Miller |editor-first=Toby |editor-link=Toby Miller |pages=119–127 |language=en |chapter=Celebrity}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Walsh |first=Peter William |date=2015-10-09 |title=On Academic Celebrity |url=https://thesociologicalreview.org/collections/academic-celebrity/on-academic-celebrity/ |journal=The Sociological Review |language=English |publisher=SAGE Publishing |issn=2754-1371}}</ref> Due to the recent proliferation of research on celebrity across academic disciplines, a scholarly consensus has emerged about its importance.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Semati |first1=Mehdi |last2=Zambon |first2=Kate |date=3 July 2021 |title=The global politics of celebrity |journal=Popular Communication |publisher=Routledge |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=159–163 |doi=10.1080/15405702.2021.1922690 |issn=1540-5702 |doi-access= |s2cid=235465712}}</ref> The journal was started by Sean Redmond (University of Victoria) and Su Holmes (University of East Anglia) in 2010 and is published by Routledge.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gibson |first=Pamela Church |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vwM50vdtDnQC |title=Fashion and Celebrity Culture |date=20 January 2012 |publisher=Berg Publishers |isbn=978-1-84788-386-5 |pages=3 |language=en}}</ref> Redmond and Holmes are both media studies academics<ref name=":2" /> who, in 2006, published a review of recent debates about celebrity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weng |first=Yi-cheng |date=2022-05-19 |title=Grappling with Celebrity Status: Women, Theatre, and the Mechanisms of Celebrity in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1937964 |journal=Journal of Gender Studies |publisher=Routledge |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=527–543 |doi=10.1080/09589236.2021.1937964 |s2cid=237793444 |issn=0958-9236|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Celebrity Studies'' is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the subject of celebrity.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Feeley |first=Kathleen A. |date=2016 |title=Spectacular Manhood and Girlhood: Celebrity Studies and Girlhood Studies Come of Age |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/651140 |journal=American Studies |language=en |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=54 |doi=10.1353/ams.2016.0076 |s2cid=151901211 |issn=2153-6856|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=Suzanne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gunuDQAAQBAJ |title=Keywords for Media Studies |last2=Negra |first2=Diane |date=14 March 2017 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-8365-3 |editor-last=Ouellette |editor-first=Laurie |page=28 |language=en |chapter=Celebrity |doi=10.2307/j.ctt1gk08zz |editor-last2=Gray |editor-first2=Jonathan}}</ref> It was initially published three times per year.<ref name=":6" />

In the inaugural issue of the journal, the co-editors noted that celebrity "exists at the core of many of the spaces, experiences and economies of modern life."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Handyside |first=Fiona |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fROJDwAAQBAJ |title=Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood |date=2017-01-29 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-1-78673-160-9 |page=19 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Shome |first=Raka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v25zAwAAQBAJ |title=Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture |date=2014-10-30 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-09668-6 |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref> Additionally, they wanted to remind readers that engaging with celebrity requires individuals "to defamiliarise the everyday" and thereby "make apparent the cultural politics and power relations which sit at the center of 'the taken for granted.'" Such a task of "uncovering and analyzing the systems and structures" of celebrity lies at the foundation of media, television, and cultural studies, according to the inaugural issue.<ref name="Introduction—Celebrity Rites" /> Holmes also told the ''Times Higher Education'' that celebrity studies was "more central to understanding the everyday than maths, English or science".<ref name=":7">{{cite web |last=Jump |first=Paul |date=3 June 2010 |title=Nothing shallow about Obama the liquid avatar |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nothing-shallow-about-obama-the-liquid-avatar/411906.article |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=Times Higher Education |language=en |issn=0049-3929}}</ref>

{{Multiple image | direction = horizontal | image1 = Sen. Barack Obama smiles.jpg | caption1 = | image2 = Jackie Chan by Gage Skidmore.jpg | caption2 = | total_width = 350 | footer = US President Barack Obama and actor Jackie Chan were both featured in the inaugural issue of ''Celebrity Studies''. | footer_align = center | background color = | alt1 = On the left: an image of Barack Obama in a black suit. | alt2 = On the right: an image of actor Jackie Chan in a pink shirt. }}

One article in the inaugural issue authored by Redmond was titled "Avatar Obama in the Age of Liquid Celebrity".<ref>{{Citation |last1=Loy |first1=Stephen |title=Popular Music, Stars and Stardom: Definitions, Discourses, Interpretations |date=2018 |work=Popular Music, Stars and Stardom |pages=5 |editor-first= |publisher=ANU Press |doi=10.22459/PMSS.06.2018 |isbn=978-1-76046-212-3 |jstor=j.ctv301dk8.5 |last2=Rickwood |first2=Julie |last3=Bennett |first3=Samantha |doi-access=free}}</ref> Redmond argued that US President Barack Obama is the "epitome of runniness" in an "era of disembedding without re-embedding." Another article explored actor Jackie Chan in relation to "ageing, race and masculinity in transnational action."<ref name=":7" /> Graeme Turner, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, was featured in the invitation-only first issue of the journal,<ref>{{cite news |last=Lane |first=Bernard |date=9 June 2010 |title=Celebrity goss morphs into cultural study |pages=41 |work=The Australian |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/celebrity-goss-morphs-into-cultural-study/news-story/d6e3f4ee69b293dd6f2f0a751d0a4e58 |issn=1038-8761 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> where he explained why such a journal was needed<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stever |first=Gayle |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8DZyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 |title=The Psychology of Celebrity |date=2018-10-03 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-25208-9 |edition= |page=1 |language=en |chapter=Celebrity |doi=10.4324/9781351252102|s2cid=149457968 }}</ref> and criticized the over-reliance of textual analysis in the field.<ref name="Introduction—Celebrity Rites">{{cite journal |last1=Boone |first1=Joseph A. |last2=Vickers |first2=Nancy J. |author-link2=Nancy J. Vickers |date=23 October 2020 |title=Introduction—Celebrity Rites |journal=PMLA |language=en |volume=126 |issue=4 |pages=900–911 |doi=10.1632/pmla.2011.126.4.900 |issn=0030-8129 |doi-access= |s2cid=162278254}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A Companion to Japanese Cinema |date=March 2022 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=978-1-118-95535-2 |editor-last=Desser |editor-first=David |editor-link=David Desser |location= |pages=321 |oclc=1269413807}}</ref> Additionally, Turner issued a challenge to other academics that celebrity studies scholars do more than contribute to the "discursive regime surrounding celebrity" and instead "focus on its industrial production and audience consumption."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Selberg |first=Scott |date=2017 |title=Rhinestone Cowboy: Alzheimer's, Celebrity, and the Collusions of Self |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/680490 |journal=American Quarterly |language=en |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |volume=69 |issue=4 |pages=899 |doi=10.1353/aq.2017.0071 |s2cid=148707572 |issn=1080-6490|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The aim of the journal is to address the "production, circulation and consumption of fame" in contemporary and historical contexts and provide a forum for debate.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Abrahams |first=Marc |author-link=Marc Abrahams |date=16 June 2014 |title=Seat of learning – studying Pippa Middleton's bottom |url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/17/studying-pippa-middleton-bottom-improbable-research |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |issn=1756-3224}}</ref> The first few issues of the journal concentrated almost entirely on current people and events.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Braudy |first=Leo |author-link=Leo Braudy (academic) |date=2011 |title=Knowing the Performer from the Performance: Fame, Celebrity, and Literary Studies |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41414176 |journal=PMLA |volume=126 |issue=4 |pages=1071 |doi=10.1632/pmla.2011.126.4.1070 |jstor=41414176 |s2cid=162360824 |issn=0030-8129|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The journal draws upon a range of interdisciplinary approaches<ref>{{cite web |last=Abrahams |first=Marc |author-link=Marc Abrahams |date=10 February 2009 |title=The fame game |url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/feb/10/improbable-research-celebrity |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |issn=1756-3224}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Scheidt |first1=Stefan |last2=Gelhard |first2=Carsten |last3=Henseler |first3=Jörg |date=2020 |title=Old Practice, but Young Research Field: A Systematic Bibliographic Review of Personal Branding |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |volume=11 |pages=7 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01809 |issn=1664-1078 |pmc=7433337 |pmid=32849068|doi-access=free }}</ref> and explores the relevance of celebrity studies to other disciplines like sociology and political science.<ref name="Fawcett">{{cite book |last=Fawcett |first=Julia H. |url=http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935338-e-43 |title=Literature and Celebrity: Eighteenth Century and Beyond |date=6 August 2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-993533-8 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.43 |doi-access=free}}</ref> The journal's initial editorial board totaled 15 editors from British universities and universities abroad.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dobson |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Dobson |date=8 November 2008 |title=Celebrity magazine with a difference is launched |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3405067/Celebrity-magazine-with-a-difference-is-launched.html |access-date=6 July 2022 |website=The Telegraph |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Each journal issue features a book review section and a forum section dedicated to shorter essays, observations, and debates.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last=Morley |first=Rachel |date=2010 |title=Holmes, Su and Redmond, Sean (Editors) – Celebrity Studies, Routledge, Vol 1, Issue 1, March 2010 Print ISSN 1939-2397 Online ISSN 1939-2400 |url=https://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/gmjau/archive/v4_2010_1/pdf/rachel_BR_GMJ_V4_1_2010.pdf |journal=Global Media Journal |volume=4 |issue=1 |issn=1835-2340 |oclc=901021660}}</ref> By August 2018, the journal had published thirty issues.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=Peter William |last2=Lehmann |first2=David |date=2021-03-01 |title=Academic Celebrity |journal=International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society |language=en |publisher=Springer |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=23 |doi=10.1007/s10767-019-09340-9 |issn=1573-3416 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

Holmes stepped down as co-editor in 2019 and was replaced by Erin A. Meyers,<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2 January 2019 |title=Editorial |journal=Celebrity Studies |publisher=Routledge |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=1–3 |doi=10.1080/19392397.2019.1565699 |issn=1939-2397 |doi-access=free |s2cid=218591625}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hendrickson |first=Elizabeth M. |date=2020 |title=The Ordinary Mystique And US Weekly's Heyday |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/793333 |journal=Journal of Magazine Media |language=en |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=113–115 |doi=10.1353/jmm.2020.0007 |s2cid=236877389 |issn=2576-7895|url-access=subscription }}</ref> who is an associate professor of communication at Oakland University.<ref name=":10" /> Alice Leppert, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College, was named co-editor of the journal in 2020. Leppert had been involved with the journal since its inception and has written about subjects such as a Hong Kong film star, the cast of ''Friends'', and reality TV.<ref name=":10">{{cite web |date=2 November 2020 |title=MCS Professor Alice Leppert Named Co-editor of Celebrity Studies Journal |url=https://www.ursinus.edu/live/news/5134-mcs-professor-alice-leppert-named-co-editor-of |access-date=1 July 2022 |website=Ursinus College |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Kambhampaty |first1=Anna P. |last2=Issawi |first2=Danya |date=2 May 2022 |title=What Is a 'Nepotism Baby'? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/style/nepotism-babies.html |access-date=10 July 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

=== Reception === While the announcement of the journal was met with negative media and academic reception,<ref name="Iowa">{{Cite book |last1=Lam |first1=Celia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOmIEAAAQBAJ |title=Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline |last2=Raphael |first2=Jackie |last3=Middlemost |first3=Renee |last4=Balanzategui |first4=Jessica |date=2022-11-29 |publisher=University of Iowa Press |isbn=978-1-60938-856-0 |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref> ''Celebrity Studies'' has since given the field institutional legitimacy<ref>{{cite book |last=Pearson |first=Roberta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OIfFAgAAQBAJ |title=Real Lives, Celebrity Stories: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media |date=16 January 2014 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-4411-4618-2 |editor-last=Round |editor-first=Julia |pages=189 |language=en |chapter=Remembering Frank Sinatra: Celebrity Studies Meets Memory Studies |doi=10.5040/9781501306853 |editor-last2=Thomas |editor-first2=Bronwen}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Wheeler |first=Mark |title=Celebrity Politics and Cultural Studies Within the United States and United Kingdom |date=2018-08-28 |url=https://oxfordre.com/communication/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-620 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication |pages=20 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.620 |isbn=978-0-19-022861-3 |access-date=2022-07-11|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and has helped raise the prestige of the field.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Green |first1=David |title=Publishing and communication strategies |date=2012-01-01 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781843346692500056 |work=Academic and Professional Publishing |pages=131 |editor-last=Campbell |editor-first=Robert |publisher=Chandos Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1016/b978-1-84334-669-2.50005-6 |isbn=978-1-84334-669-2 |access-date=2022-07-13 |last2=Cookson |first2=Rod |editor2-last=Pentz |editor2-first=Ed |editor3-last=Borthwick |editor3-first=Ian|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The journal's debut reflects a growing scholarly interest in the discipline{{refn|<ref>{{cite journal |last=Grout |first=Holly |date=May 2019 |title=European Celebrity in Historical Perspective |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/abs/european-celebrity-in-historical-perspective/0AE540D1714E99DE1129811E40766FE4 |journal=Contemporary European History |language=en |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=273–282 |doi=10.1017/S0960777318000565 |issn=0960-7773 |s2cid=150134185|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Pérez |first=Jorge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1V47EAAAQBAJ |title=Fashioning Spanish Cinema: Costume, Identity, and Stardom |date=30 July 2021 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |jstor=10.3138/j.ctv1v0909r |isbn=978-1-4875-3974-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Feeley |first=Kathleen A. |date=June 2012 |title=Gossip as News: On Modern U.S. Celebrity Culture and Journalism: Modern U.S. Celebrity Culture and Journalism |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00854.x |journal=History Compass |language=en |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=469 |doi=10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00854.x|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jeffreys |first1=Elaine |last2=Xu |first2=Jian |date=2017-04-03 |title=Celebrity-inspired, Fan-driven: Doing Philanthropy through Social Media in Mainland China |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10357823.2017.1294145 |journal=Asian Studies Review |language=en |publisher=Routledge |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=244 |doi=10.1080/10357823.2017.1294145 |issn=1035-7823 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10453/88113 |s2cid=151423576|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Morgan |first=Simon J. |date=November 2010 |title=A Short History of Celebrity |url=https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/994 |journal=Reviews in History |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |doi=10.14296/RiH |issn=1749-8155 |doi-access=free}}</ref>}} and the socio-political uses of fame.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Deng |first1=Guosheng |last2=Jeffreys |first2=Elaine |date=March 2019 |title=Celebrity Philanthropy in China: Reconfiguring Government and Non-Government Roles in National Development |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0305741018001364/type/journal_article |journal=The China Quarterly |language=en |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=237 |pages=217–240 |doi=10.1017/S0305741018001364 |issn=0305-7410 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10453/132753 |s2cid=158373162|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Sociologist Robert van Krieken has referred to the journal as a "treasure trove of innovative analyses of celebrity."<ref>{{cite book |last=Krieken |first=Robert van |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HAF-DwAAQBAJ |title=Celebrity Society: The Struggle for Attention |date=7 December 2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-58722-8 |edition=2nd |language=en |oclc=1078637038 |author-link=Robert van Krieken}}</ref> Marc Abrahams, editor of the ''Annals of Improbable Research'', wrote that the journal "has come to epitomise, if not utterly dominate, the entire academic field with which it shares a name."<ref name=":0" /> It is regarded as the preeminent<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":11" /> or flagship<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harrington |first=C. Lee |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317691488 |title=Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies |date=2018-03-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-77677-4 |editor-last=Elliott |editor-first=Anthony |edition=1 |language=en |chapter=Soap Stars |doi=10.4324/9781315776774}}</ref> journal in its field. In 2011, the journal was shortlisted by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) for the Best New Journal award.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 September 2011 |title=ALPSP Awards 2011 – the Winners |url=http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=251&groupid=192&groupname=About+ALPSP |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211051525/http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=251&groupid=192&groupname=About+ALPSP |archive-date=11 December 2011 |access-date=1 July 2022 |website=Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers}}</ref>

Bioethicist Andy Miah, who founded the first celebrity culture conference in 2005, was not surprised of the launch of the journal because "celebrities have become a focal point of our value system which warrant our attention."<ref name=":2">{{cite web |last=Bell |first=Matthew |date=16 November 2008 |title=Celebrity, the cerebral and articles you won't see in 'Heat' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/celebrity-the-cerebral-and-articles-you-won-t-see-in-heat-1020268.html |access-date=4 July 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en |issn=1741-9743}}</ref> Others were more dismissive of the journal during its launch. Australian public intellectual Germaine Greer opined that the journal would not survive three issues.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Keane |first=Michael |date=2011 |title=Review of Celebrity in China |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25790587 |journal=The China Journal |publisher=University of Chicago Press |issue=65 |pages=249–250 |doi=10.1086/tcj.65.25790587 |jstor=25790587 |issn=1324-9347|url-access=subscription }}</ref> British author and historian Graham McCann criticized the journal, saying that "academic findings of this sort are at best banal and at worst misleading."<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> Matthew Bell of ''The Independent'' wrote that he expected to see the journal produce "plenty of pseudo-academic mumbo jumbo."<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> Holmes and Redmond attributed the largely unfavorable media reaction of their journal to fears of "dumbing down" of higher education.<ref>{{cite book |last=Malcolm |first=Dominic |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqaLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT122 |title=Sport and Sociology |date=15 March 2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-15719-7 |language=en |chapter=Sport and Celebrity |doi=}}</ref><ref name="Fawcett" /> Additionally, the editors believed the negative response can be attributed to the "perception that academia is 'frivolous and populist' because of the apparently 'low-brow' subject of its scholarship."<ref name="Iowa" /> Turner defended the reputation of the journal and the field, arguing it "isn't bullshit, this is stuff that actually is happening now."<ref name=":3" />

=== Conference === ''Celebrity Studies'' sponsors an international conference every two years.<ref>{{cite web |last=York |first=Lorraine |author-link=Lorraine York |date=24 January 2018 |title=Unseemly |url=https://www.thesmartset.com/unseemly/ |access-date=6 July 2022 |website=The Smart Set |language=en-US}}</ref> The conference and the journal draw in a network of international media, film, and television scholars.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Giles |first=David C. |title=Twenty-First Century Celebrity: Fame in Digital Culture |date=2018 |publisher=Emerald Publishing |isbn=978-1-78743-708-1 |location= |pages=4 |oclc=1051138238}}</ref> The biennial conference began in 2012<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stein |first1=Louisa |last2=Shingler |first2=Martin |date=2018 |title=Revisiting Star Studies ed. by Sabrina Qiong Yu and Guy Austin (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/692001 |journal=Cinema Journal |publisher=University of Texas Press |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=178 |doi=10.1353/cj.2018.0041 |s2cid=149597151 |issn=2578-4919|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and took place at Deakin University in Melbourne.<ref name=":5">{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=P. David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OTB0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 |title=Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture |date=15 August 2014 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-4402-9 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=xv}} In 2014, the conference was held at Royal Holloway, University of London. The conference debated the role of celebrities in society and discussed the impact of Hollywood, celebrity animals, and the influence of celebrity chefs.<ref>{{cite web |last=Paton |first=Graeme |author-link=Graeme Paton |date=17 June 2014 |title=Children can learn lessons from celebrities, says academic |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10906111/Children-can-learn-lessons-from-celebrities-says-academic.html |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=The Telegraph |issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Young-Powell |first=Abby |date=20 June 2014 |title=Are university courses that focus on celebrities a good idea? |url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/20/are-university-courses-celebrities-beyonce-good-idea |access-date=6 July 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |issn=1756-3224}}</ref> The 2014 conference was criticized by journalist Cathy Newman of ''Channel 4 News'', who considered the argument that celebrities can make information more accessible was "bizarre, if not downright depressing," and opined that "Katy Perry can't our children anything about politics."<ref>{{cite book |last=Usher |first=Bethany |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y1YAEAAAQBAJ |title=Journalism and Celebrity |date=18 October 2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-53519-2 |pages=3 |language=en |doi=10.4324/9780429259531|s2cid=224917144 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Newman |first=Cathy |author-link=Cathy Newman |date=18 June 2014 |title=Celebrity studies? Katy Perry can't teach our teenagers anything about politics |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10908799/Celebrity-studies-Katy-Perry-cant-teach-our-teenagers-anything-about-politics.html |access-date=6 July 2022 |website=The Telegraph |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

The third international conference occurred at the University of Amsterdam in June 2016. The subtitle of the conference was "Authenticating Celebrity." Over 200 experts were in attendance, most of whom were from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The conference addressed matters such as digital technology, celebrity politics, and "What makes a celebrity authentic?"<ref>{{cite journal |last=Peter |first=Mikuláš |date=November 2016 |title=Authenticating Celebrity in the Contemporary World |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1841961991 |journal=Communication Today |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=128–129 |id={{ProQuest|1841961991}} }}</ref> At the conference, literary historian Lorraine York et al. presented their work on the Kardashian family.<ref>{{cite book |last=York |first=Lorraine |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-71174-4 |title=Reluctant Celebrity |date=2018 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-319-71173-7 |location= |pages= |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-71174-4 |lccn=2017962436 |author-link=Lorraine York}}</ref>{{Rp|page=vi}} In 2018, the fourth international conference was held in Rome at La Sapienza University. The conference was entitled "Desecrating Celebrity."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Andò |first1=Romana |last2=Francesca |first2=Pasquali |last3=Antonella |first3=Mascio |last4=Sara |first4=Pesce |last5=Laura |first5=Gemini |date=November 2018 |title=Desecrating Celebrity. Italian Cases in Cinema, TV Series, Music and Social Media |url=https://core.ac.uk/display/322820585 |journal=Mediascapes Journal |publisher=Sapienza University of Rome |issn=2282-2542}}</ref> The fifth international conference was scheduled to take place at the University of Winchester<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 June 2019 |title=Transformations in Celebrity Culture: The Fifth International Celebrity Studies Conference |url=https://ecrea.eu/page-18206/7559226 |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=European Communication Research and Education Association}}</ref> but was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ewen |first=Neil |date=16 March 2020 |title=UPDATE: Conference cancelled |url=https://celebritystudiesconference.com/2020/03/16/update-conference-cancelled/ |access-date=9 July 2022 |website=Celebrity Studies Journal Conference |language=en |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331005800/https://celebritystudiesconference.com/2020/03/16/update-conference-cancelled/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Notable studies == [[File:Pippa Middleton.jpg|thumb|262x262px|Pippa Middleton, younger sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales, had her buttocks analysed by researchers in the journal. |alt=Pippa Middleton smiling while wearing a black and white dress.]]

=== Pippa Middleton's buttocks === In November 2011, Janet McCabe, a scholar from the University of London, published an article in the journal that examined the role of Pippa Middleton's buttocks. McCabe wrote, "The celebrity of the Middleton curves has something important to tell us about celebrating the feminine ideal, which is compelling enough to psychically entangle us and from which we are not entirely able to free ourselves."<ref name=":0" /> A later study published in the journal examined Middleton's buttocks through Marxist and Freudian analyses.<ref name=":9">{{cite web |last=Abrahams |first=Marc |author-link=Marc Abrahams |date=11 February 2015 |title=Pippa Middleton's backside – the Marxist interpretation |url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/11/pippa-middleton-backside-marxist |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |issn=1756-3224}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=19 February 2015 |title=The week in higher education – 19 February 2015 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/the-week-in-higher-education-19-february-2015/2018591.article |access-date=6 July 2022 |website=Times Higher Education |language=en |issn=0049-3929}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Dugdale |first=John |date=27 December 2015 |title=Blunders, bombshells and bad sex |language=en |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/blunders-bombshells-and-bad-sex-3d3h0mbbb |access-date=6 July 2022 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

=== Climate contrarians === A 2013 article traced the history of "climate contrarians" back to the 1980s. The authors identified "keystone species"—climate contrarians who have oversized voices in the media—and how such individuals "hold the ecosystem of climate denial together."<ref>{{cite web |last=Abraham |first=John |date=8 November 2013 |title=Climate contrarians are more celebrity than scientist |url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/nov/08/climage-change-denial-celebrity-not-science |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |issn=1756-3224}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Abidin |first1=Crystal |last2=Brockington |first2=Dan |last3=Goodman |first3=Michael K. |last4=Mostafanezhad |first4=Mary |last5=Richey |first5=Lisa Ann |date=17 October 2020 |title=The Tropes of Celebrity Environmentalism |journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources |language=en |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=399 |doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-081703 |issn=1543-5938 |doi-access=free |s2cid=219126719}}</ref> These contrarians frequently label environmentalists as "communist, un-American fanatics" who are "diametrically opposed to prosperity, jobs, and profit," according to the study.<ref>{{cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Dan |date=18 November 2019 |title=The Last of the Climate Deniers Hold On, Despite Your Protests |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-last-of-the-climate-deniers-hold-on-despite-your-protests-v26n4/ |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=Vice |language=en |issn=1077-6788}}</ref> The authors argued the "celebritisation of the climate" gives climate contrarians the ability to gain recognition in the public sphere, where their contributions are considered "balanced" in media debates on climate change.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Eleanor |last2=Haarstad |first2=Håvard |date=17 April 2022 |title=Competing climate spectacles in the amplified public space |journal=Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space |volume=40 |issue=7 |language=en |publisher=SAGE Publications |pages=1437–1454 |doi=10.1177/23996544221082406 |issn=2399-6544 |doi-access=free |s2cid=248250711|hdl=10852/99564 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

=== Meghan, Duchess of Sussex === A 2018 critique by researchers Laura Clancy and Hannah Yelin published in the journal argued that the British monarchy had 'co-opted' the feminism of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex to enhance their public image. The researchers argued that before marrying Prince Harry, Markle was a vocal advocate for women's rights. According to the researchers, "Markle's activist voice has been either silenced or appropriated by the monarchy."<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Leake |first=Jonathan |date=16 December 2018 |title=Meghan accused of dropping feminism like a hot potato |language=en |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/meghan-accused-of-dropping-feminism-like-a-hot-potato-tfr82pt20 |access-date=30 June 2022 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Murray |first=Tom |date=17 December 2018 |title=Meghan Markle has lost her feminist voice, according to 2 university researchers who have studied her since she married Prince Harry |url=https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-has-lost-her-feminist-voice-academics-say-2018-12 |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=Insider |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last= |date=17 December 2018 |title=¿Meghan dejó de ser feminista porque se casó con Harry? Un estudio lo explica |url=https://www.univision.com/entretenimiento/cultura-pop/meghan-dejo-de-ser-feminista-porque-se-caso-con-harry-un-estudio-lo-explica |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=Univision |language=spanish}}</ref> Clancy and Yelin accused the monarchy of using Markle's "celebrity status to "re-legitimise" the Royal Family's male monarchical power." The researchers noted that Markle had quit her acting career and shut down her popular blog and social media accounts.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 December 2018 |title=Meghan's Royal makeover slammed as damaging to women |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/academics-accuse-meghan-markle-of-dropping-feminist-beliefs-for-royals/6TJKSHABQPUT4CXICWCDQ4Y2UA/ |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ |issn=1170-0777}}</ref> The Royal Palace declined to comment on the study.<ref name=":1" />

''The Sunday Times'' wrote about the study under the headline "Meghan accused of dropping feminism like a hot potato". Clancy and Yelin criticized the headline as "problematically inaccurate", and Yelin later appeared on Sky News to explain the study was "not about scrutinising Markle herself and it's certainly not about policing anybody else's feminism."<ref name=":8">{{cite journal |last1=Yelin |first1=Hannah |last2=Clancy |first2=Laura |date=May 2021 |title=Doing impact work while female: Hate tweets, 'hot potatoes' and having 'enough of experts' |journal=European Journal of Women's Studies |language=en |publisher=SAGE Publishing |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=183 |doi=10.1177/1350506820910194 |issn=1350-5068 |doi-access=free |s2cid=216344740}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Overington |first=Caroline |author-link=Caroline Overington |date=15 November 2019 |title=Meghan and the F-Word |pages=28 |work=The Australian |url=https://web-s-ebscohost-com.lib.pepperdine.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=7&sid=c8ff077f-2a8f-4a1a-9ccc-14c91633bedb%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHVybCx1aWQsY29va2llJnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=9X9AUSNEWSMMGLSTRY000408824572&db=nfh |issn=1038-8761 |via=EBSCOHost}}</ref> Clancy and Yelin stated they received accusations of sexism and racism and encountered various forms of harassment following the study's publication. They subsequently researched how academics more broadly experience the misrepresentation of their work in the media.<ref name=":8" /> [[File:Study on Keanu Reeves.pdf|thumb|A study published in a special issue of ''Celebrity Studies'' examining actor Keanu Reeves in the ''John Wick'' franchise |299x299px|alt=The front page of a study analyzing actor Keanu Reeves in the John Wick franchise. ]]

=== Influencer marketing === A 2022 bibliometric analysis found that Khamis et al. (2017) had one of the most cited articles in Scopus in the realm of influencer marketing. The authors argued that "influencer marketing has emerged alongside the growth of digital technology, particularly social media, thereby creating an opportunity for brand marketing by what are termed social media influencers."<ref>{{Citation |last=Boateng |first=Sheena Lovia |title=Influencer Marketing: A Bibliometric Analysis of 10 Years of Scopus-Indexed Research |date=2022 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-77987-0_7 |work=Digital Innovations, Business and Society in Africa |series=Advances in Theory and Practice of Emerging Markets |pages=139–164 |editor-last= |editor-first= |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-77987-0_7 |isbn=978-3-030-77986-3 |s2cid=245647125 |access-date=1 July 2022 |editor2-last= |editor2-first= |editor3-last= |editor3-first= |editor4-last= |editor4-first=|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Additionally, they argued that cultivating authenticity is a significant element of "micro-celebrity" which produces "a sense of realness that renders their narratives, their branding, both accessible and intimate."<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWRXEAAAQBAJ |title=Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and Risk |last2= |first2= |date=2021 |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan |isbn=978-981-16-4290-6 |editor-last=Elliott |editor-first=Charlene |pages=149 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-981-16-4290-6 |s2cid= 20407173|editor-last2=Greenberg |editor-first2=Josh }}</ref>

=== Special issues === The journal regularly produces special thematic issues.<ref name=":11">{{Citation |last=Marshall |first=P. David |title=Celebrity and Public Persona |date=2015-01-15 |url=https://oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0159.xml |work=Oxford Bibliographies |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/obo/9780199756841-0159 |isbn=978-0-19-975684-1 |access-date=2022-07-12|doi-access=free |hdl=10536/DRO/DU:30074866 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Special issues have focused on subjects such as David Bowie and ageing.<ref>{{Citation |last=York |first=Lorraine |title=Celebrity |date=19 November 2020 |url=https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-1116 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1116 |isbn=978-0-19-020109-8 |access-date=8 July 2022 |author-link=Lorraine York|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Following Michael Jackson's sudden death in 2009, the journal dedicated eight articles to the singer in its "Celebrity Forum" section.<ref>{{cite book |last=Garde-Hansen |first=Joanne |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r25r9 |title=Media and Memory |date=2011 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-4034-8 |pages=126–127 |jstor=10.3366/j.ctt1r25r9 }}</ref> The special issue explored Jackson's death as a media event and the rituals of mourning and memorialisation associated with such an event.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Jean |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351784122 |title=A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death |last2=Mitchell |first2=Peta |last3=Münch |first3=Felix Victor |date=2018-08-06 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-20212-9 |editor-last=Papacharissi |editor-first=Zizi |editor-link=Zizi Papacharissi |edition=1 |location= |language=en |chapter=Social Media Rituals: The Uses of Celebrity Death in Digital Culture |doi=10.4324/9781315202129 |s2cid=240326748 |author-link=Jean Burgess |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0pnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT232}}</ref> A 2012 special edition focused on the Olympics, where one article examined Australian diver Matthew Mitcham as a "gay sporting icon."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bonner |first=Frances |date=2015-07-04 |title=Kylie will be ok: On the (im-)possibility of Australian celebrity studies |journal=Cultural Studies |language=en |publisher=Routledge |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=539 |doi=10.1080/09502386.2014.1000606 |issn=0950-2386 |doi-access=free |s2cid=146539090}}</ref> In 2022, a special issue of the journal was devoted exclusively to Canadian actor Keanu Reeves.<ref name=":4">{{cite web |last=Romano |first=Aja |date=16 August 2019 |title=Keanu Reeves, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2019/8/16/20694479/keanu-reeves-in-2019-revival-memes-history-explained |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Celebrity Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2 (2022) |language=en |work=Taylor & Francis |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcel20/13/2?nav=tocList |access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref> A call for papers requested topics such as "tragic Keanu"; "Keanu-as-meme"; Keanu as "reluctant celebrity"; and Keanu's relationship to "queer and Asian American identities."<ref name=":4" />

Other special issues of the journal covered topics such as the TV series ''RuPaul's Drag Race,''<ref>{{cite book |last=O'Meara |first=Jennifer |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/324431 |title=Women's Voices in Digital Media: The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes |date=2022 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-1-4773-2443-1 |pages=172 |doi=10.7560/324431|jstor=10.7560/324431 |s2cid=240137361 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kavka |first=Misha |date=14 February 2019 |title=Reality TV: its contents and discontents: Reality TV: its contents and discontents |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/criq.12442 |journal=Critical Quarterly |language=en |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=13 |doi=10.1111/criq.12442|s2cid=166787026 |hdl=2292/46601 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}</ref> the 2011 royal wedding,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clancy |first=Laura |date=3 July 2019 |title='Queen's Day – TV's Day': the British monarchy and the media industries |journal=Contemporary British History |publisher=Routledge |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=429 |doi=10.1080/13619462.2019.1597710 |issn=1361-9462 |doi-access=free |s2cid=150975911}}</ref> celebrity biographies,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mayer |first1=Sandra |last2=Novak |first2=Julia |date=2019-04-03 |title=Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections |journal=Life Writing |publisher=Routledge |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=150 |doi=10.1080/14484528.2019.1539208 |issn=1448-4528 |doi-access=free |s2cid=166644779}}</ref> and Asian stardom.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-13-5980-4 |title=Female Celebrities in Contemporary Chinese Society |date=2019 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-981-13-5979-8 |editor-last=Cai |editor-first=Shenshen |location= |pages=2 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-981-13-5980-4|s2cid=239368556 }}</ref>

== Abstracting and indexing == The journal is indexed and abstracted in: {{Columns-list| *''Arts and Humanities Citation Index<ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Web of Science Master Journal List |url=https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results?issn=1939-2397&hide_exact_match_fl=true |access-date=19 August 2021 |website=Clarivate}}</ref>'' *''Current Contents/Arts & Humanities<ref name=":12" />'' *''Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences<ref name=":12" />'' *Modern Language Association Database<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Celebrity Studies |url=https://miar.ub.edu/indizadaen/1939-2397/mla |access-date=15 July 2022 |website=MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals |publisher=University of Barcelona}}</ref> *Social Sciences Citation Index<ref name=":12" /> *Scopus<ref>{{cite web |title=Scopus preview: Celebrity Studies |url=https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19800188060 |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=Scopus}}</ref> }} According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 0.9.<ref name="WoS">{{cite book |title=2024 Journal Citation Reports |title-link=Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |year=2025 |edition=Social Sciences |series=Web of Science |chapter=Celebrity Studies}}</ref> ''Celebrity Studies'' was included in Excellence in Research for Australia's 2018 Journal List.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 March 2022 |title=ERA 2018 Journal List |url=https://www.arc.gov.au/file/10549/download?token=Sbfb2a9n |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309020544/https://www.arc.gov.au/excellence-research-australia/era-2018-journal-list |archive-date=9 March 2022 |access-date=10 July 2022 |website=Australian Research Council}}</ref> The Norwegian Scientific Index classifies ''Celebrity Studies'' as a "Level 1" journal.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrity Studies |url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalTidsskriftInfo.action?id=479922 |access-date=10 July 2022 |website=The Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers}}</ref>

== See also == * Fan studies * ''The Journal of Popular Culture''

== References ==  {{reflist}}

== Further reading == {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Inglis |first=Fred |title=A Short History of Celebrity |date=21 July 2010 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-3439-6 |location= |doi=10.1515/9781400834396 |oclc=649913135 |author-link=Fred Inglis}} *{{cite book |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9781118475089 |title=A Companion to Celebrity |date=5 October 2015 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-47508-9 |editor-last=Marshall |editor-first=P. David |location= |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781118475089 |oclc=908699070 |editor-last2=Redmond |editor-first2=Sean}} * {{cite book |last1=Redmond |first1=Sean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSRTvYgS8AwC |title=Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader |last2=Holmes |first2=Su |date=2007 |publisher=SAGE Publishing |isbn=978-1-4462-0238-8 |language=en |doi=10.4135/9781446269534 |oclc=608100383}} * {{cite book |last=Turner |first=Graeme |title=Understanding Celebrity |date=2004 |publisher=SAGE Publishing |isbn=0-7619-4167-3 |edition= |location= |doi=10.4135/9781446279953 |oclc=70757468 |author-link=Graeme Turner}} {{refend}}

== External links == * {{Official website|https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcel20}}

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