Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2135086
Anastasia Howe Bukowski, Junyi Lv
ABSTRACT This paper considers the posthumous celebrity of Hong Kong singer and actor Leslie Cheung, taking into account his amplified profile among fan communities following his 2003 suicide. Through a site analysis of the now-closed Hanyuan Bookstore in Shanghai, a major site of pilgrimage for his fans, our work is structured through an analysis of the bookshop space as well as a reading of the compendium of handwritten fan letters left behind and addressed to Cheung beyond the grave. To this end, we argue for the necessary queerness of Cheung’s status as celebrity. This queerness is not only the product of his sexual identity and his relationship with Daffy Tong, but due to the spatio-temporal orientation of Hanyuan. With Cheung maintaining a posthumous presence in the space, Hanyuan embodies and instantiates multiple spatio-temporal registers and offers a space for affective re-orientation in face of the everyday, creating a commensurate site of proximity between living fan and deceased star. With Hanyuan standing as a unique site of pilgrimage linking past and future and enhancing already-held parasocial relations, this paper equally considers the geographic particularities of Cheung’s posthumous celebrity status within a more complex field of contemporary Chinese-speaking popular culture.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2135085
Chris Tinker
ABSTRACT Focusing on the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday in the immediate aftermath of his death in 2017, this article shows how his initial posthumous newspaper coverage in France exhibits many of the general features of celebrity news and journalism, draws a broadly positive consensus around his public persona when alive while opening up possible areas for discussion or debate and represents his memorialisation as a particular site of division.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2135082
C. Boyce, Danielle Mariann Dove
ABSTRACT This article examines the New York Times’ ‘Overlooked’ project, an online memorialising enterprise dedicated to providing ‘forgotten’ celebrities (mostly women) with retrospective obituaries. Launched on International Women’s Day 2018 with the aim of addressing the gendered and racialised inequalities inherent in obituary selection, the project attempts to rectify the NYT’s omission of notable figures from its obits section. Focusing on two case studies from the first cohort of these belated obits – Charlotte Brontë and Ida B. Wells-Barnett – this article examines how the retrospective nature of the project affects the structure, content and function of the celebrity obituary. Considering the issues at stake in remembering and reframing ‘overlooked’ lives from the past, it questions whether focusing on historically overlooked celebrities works to redress social injustice and increase diversity of representation in the present.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2135087
P. Andrews
ABSTRACT Princess Diana is a secular saint whose fame spans generations and borders and has never dimmed. Fiction, fashion, relatability and a diverse and fervent fandom keep Diana current and relevant over 25 years since her death. In this article, I argue that Diana’s death and persisting celebrity give fans the freedom to own and play with her image and persona, and to relate to her in new ways informed by an ironic yet emotionally intense online milieu. I demonstrate that these new ways of relating to Diana prove that her digital life after death is not limited to her appearance and demise, but extends towards her attitude to social issues, rendering Diana fandom a political act. To do so, I combine analysis of Diana, digital fandom, dolls and the creation of AI animations. First, I analyse Diana’s portrayal in traditional and social media. Second, using a new creative methodology I call ‘social media reaction capture’, I create images using AI to test audience responses. Finally, I discuss how emerging technologies and cultures enable dead celebrities to live on while handing control of their image and personae to irreverent new audiences, arguing that ironic fandom and playfulness make Diana’s sainthood persist.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109310
J. McIntyre, D. Riggs, Clare Bartholomaeus
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, mainstream media representations of trans people have significantly increased, and trans celebrities have been a determining force in this cultural movement. Media interest in trans people’s lives has expanded to encompass trans children, and the trans child celebrity has become a relatively new recruit in the realm of stardom. Nevertheless, little scholarly work has attended to their specificities. Addressing this lacuna, this article examines the particularities and impacts of contemporary trans child celebrities, taking two celebrity case studies as its focus: North American trans celebrity Jazz Jennings, star of the long-running reality television programme I am Jazz; and Australian trans celebrity Evie Macdonald, who plays the central character in the Australian trans-themed children’s television series First Day. This article examines intersections of transnormativity, gender norms, and discourses of ‘childhood innocence’ as they manifest in media representations of Jennings and Macdonald. We argue that there is a problematic tendency for mainstream media to present these trans child celebrities in transnormative frames; nevertheless, evident in these representations is the potential for broader shifts from transnormative to transformative approaches to representing trans child celebrities, and therefore to how they shape public discourse regarding trans people’s lives.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2120409
Shaohua Guo
ABSTRACT Arguably no Chinese stars have sparked as much domestic controversy as Zhang Ziyi, nor have any achieved the same level of international recognition. Amid a growing interest in the study of East Asian stars, existing scholarship has addressed, at length, the major controversies that have surrounded Zhang Ziyi. However, little attention has been paid to the changing construction of Zhang’s star persona in recent years, during which time she has begun to assume a more active role in television and on social media platforms. This article addresses this gap in literature and explores the ways in which Zhang Ziyi has reinvented her image using emerging media practices, including making use of television genres, Weibo entries, and WeChat public accounts. Zhang’s foray into small screen entertainment is not only useful for understanding the role that television and digital media play in reconstructing film stardom, but it also showcases the drastic changes in media ecologies that have occurred over the past decade in China.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109302
Djoymi Baker, J. Balanzategui, Diana Sandars
This Special Issue seeks to contribute to the developing field of child celebrity studies by offering new ways of thinking about the interface between social constructs of childhood and celebrity culture. The Issue elucidates how child celebrities have been, and continue to be, crucial to the complex conceptual apparatus that constitutes ‘the child’. We begin this Special Issue with an invitation to reconsider how childhood studies can productively be brought into dialogue with celebrity studies in ways that illuminate how child celebrities and stars operate as palimpsests upon which traces of former child stars are marked. Following Hugh Cunningham’s caution that, ‘we need to distinguish between children as human beings and childhood as a shifting set of ideas’ (2005, p. 1), we identify child stars as a particularly fraught locus for these shifting concepts because they are regulated by a system of perpetual replacement. In this process of succession, new child performers – and the ideas about childhood they embody – are mapped over former child stars as they fade into obscurity or transform into adult stars. Childhood is not a universal phenomenon but a social construction that varies greatly across cultures and eras, demarcated by the arrival of adulthood in different and often inconsistent ways (McCue 2018). The development of ‘childhood’ in the West from the 19th century onwards is beset with ‘far too many contradictions’ (Bruhm 2006, p. 98) to reconcile, and, as this Issue highlights, child stars and celebrities embody, narrativize and navigate these contradictions as they are laid over one another. Indeed, the child star is one of the most significant and high-profile means by which the concept of the child is culturally imagined and worked through. Chris Rojek (2001, p. 17) identifies the role of lineage in the construction of celebrity using the children of royal families as an example of ascribed celebrity. We argue that in the commodified constructions of child celebrity and the child star, the concept of lineage exceeds bloodlines via the perpetual replacement of the child star system, and is instead constituted by a layering of personal and cultural histories and generational and national discourses. This form of child celebrity lineage provides a framework through which to understand how the palimpestic operations of child stardom illuminate the deep but fluid ideological structures of ‘the child’ as a cultural concept.
本期特刊旨在为儿童名人研究领域的发展做出贡献，提供关于儿童社会结构与名人文化之间界面的新思路。该问题阐明了儿童名人如何一直并将继续对构成“儿童”的复杂概念装置至关重要。在本期特刊的开头，我们邀请大家重新思考，如何将儿童研究与名人研究有效地结合起来，以阐明儿童名人和明星是如何像以前的童星的痕迹一样被改写的。休·坎宁安(Hugh Cunningham)警告说，“我们需要区分作为人类的儿童和作为一组不断变化的想法的童年”(2005年，第1页)，我们认为童星是这些不断变化的概念的一个特别令人担忧的场所，因为他们受到一个不断替换的系统的调节。在这个继承的过程中，新的儿童演员——以及他们所体现的关于童年的想法——被映射到以前的童星身上，因为他们逐渐淡出人们的视野，或者转变为成年明星。童年不是一种普遍现象，而是一种社会结构，在不同的文化和时代差异很大，成年的到来以不同的、往往不一致的方式划分(McCue 2018)。从19世纪开始，西方“童年”的发展就被“太多的矛盾”所困扰(Bruhm 2006, p. 98)，难以调和，而且，正如本期所强调的，童星和名人体现、叙述和驾驭这些矛盾，因为它们彼此重叠。事实上，童星是儿童概念在文化上被想象和塑造的最重要、最引人注目的手段之一。Chris Rojek(2001，第17页)以王室子女为例，确定了血统在构建名人中的作用。我们认为，在儿童名人和童星的商品化建构中，血统的概念通过童星系统的不断更替而超越了血统，而是由个人和文化历史以及代际和民族话语的分层构成。这种形式的儿童名人血统提供了一个框架，通过这个框架，我们可以理解儿童明星的重写式操作如何阐明“儿童”作为一种文化概念的深刻而多变的意识形态结构。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109307
Djoymi Baker, J. Balanzategui
ABSTRACT Disney is a brand long associated with the production of family content and a continually replenished suite of child stars. The 2019 launch of Disney+ leveraged these heritage child stars in its tightly curated home page, stressing nostalgia and a wholesome brand image around the figure of the child. This article explores how the Disney+ interface aesthetics, catalogue organisation and other paratexts negotiate heritage child stars in the context of managing the Disney brand narrative in the streaming era. Streaming interfaces offer a new form of star ephemera, as former child stars are recontextualised under new thematic banners on Disney+. However, this careful curation on the Disney+ interface is ultimately unable to contain the instability of child stars as emblems of lost youth, a tension that becomes particularly evident in the case of Lindsay Lohan and Macaulay Culkin.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2116586
Leigh H. Edwards
ABSTRACT Singer-songwriter Dolly Parton has increasingly been using transmedia storytelling in a distinctive way, by retelling some of her signature songs in new contexts and turning them into television movies and series rooted in her autobiography. Her expansion of her classic songs into new texts on different media platforms illuminates recent trends in how star images are evolving. It reflects how Parton joins other musicians in marketing their star image as a brand, part of a neoliberal branding of the star as entrepreneurial self. Parton often merges her life story with narratives in her lyrics, drawing on her autobiography for storytelling and personal mythology. She uses her life narrative extensively in her projection of authenticity, fashioning a stage persona and media image featuring a particular version of sincerity. This essay focuses on two recent examples of retold Parton songs, the ‘9 to 5’ advertisement and an episode of the Netflix television series based on her earlier song ‘Two Doors Down’ (1977). Through historicised textual analysis and discussion of cultural theory, the essay shows the evolution of her authenticity narrative, how her transmedia storytelling illuminates trends of musicians marketed as brands, and how her star image generates new meanings via retold songs.
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