Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2115706
S. Hopkins
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109296
Mert Örsler
ABSTRACT Cem Yılmaz’s comedic persona is unique in interweaving Turkish film history and Anglophone popular culture across multiple media platforms. This persona has almost become synonymous with comedy in Turkey. Placing an emphasis on Yılmaz as a reflection of the nation’s transnational media consumption, the present article offers a closer look at how different media texts contribute to Yılmaz’s multimedia stardom.
Cem Yılmaz的喜剧角色在多个媒体平台上交织着土耳其电影史和英语流行文化。在土耳其，这个角色几乎成了喜剧的代名词。本文将重点放在Yılmaz作为国家跨国媒体消费的反映上，更深入地探讨了不同的媒体文本是如何促成Yılmaz成为多媒体明星的。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-12DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109306
F. Chaplin
ABSTRACT The relationship between Charlotte Gainsbourg and her father Serge Gainsbourg has almost mythical status in French culture and since childhood Charlotte has been widely considered the most famous daughter of a celebrity in France. From their provocative song and film collaborations in the 1980s, to Charlotte’s engagement with her father’s legacy in her own artistic output, the filial coupling of Charlotte and Serge is frequently referenced in commentaries and criticisms of both their work together and of Charlotte’s work after Serge’s death. Drawing on the concept of celebrity filial coupling, dynasty stardom, and the incest narrative and its gothic treatment in their work, this article examines the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg as it is established in their artistic collaboration in the mid-1980s and articulated in Charlotte’s later career. It aims to make an original contribution to the nascent scholarship on kinship celebrity by offering a reading of an emblematic filial couple within a French cultural context.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109305
Kristen Hatch
ABSTRACT In the 1970s, child actress and model Brooke Shields became a flashpoint for the crisis over child sexuality and paedophilia. Shields’s disturbing marriage of a child’s body with a womanly face disrupted the iconography of childhood that had flourished since the Enlightenment and pointed towards a new paradigm that has become more prominent in the decades since. This article examines how child liberationist views that children are sexual beings helped to shape Shields’s public image as an object of adult male desire, even as her celebrity became a vector for the emerging feminist argument that children must be protected from adult desire. Through discourse about Shields, artists, journalists, and others articulated opposing logics for understanding the newly sexualised child and helped lay the foundation for contemporary debates about children in visual culture.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109308
B. Judd, Diana Sandars
ABSTRACT The ‘Goodes saga’ in Australian Football transformed Adam Goodes’ persona as a dutiful son of the sport into a polarising celebrity, most infamously through an encounter with a female teenage fan. In this article, we argue that the ‘Goodes saga’ exposed the contested nature of Indigenous celebrity stemming from settler anxieties about the unruly child and Indigenous statesman. Goodes transformed from a sports star, a dutiful ‘son’ of the sport to the national celebrity of a political statesman – a position of adulthood that might be described as characteristic of Eldership. Goodes’ self-manufactured celebrity persona, based in his concept of Indigeneity as ‘having a foot in both worlds’, was enacted through his mission to incorporate Indigenous cultural practices into the sport and wider settler-Australian culture. These actions were persistently disparaged through recourses to Euro-centric concept of the child and childhood as a state of innocence. We prompt readers to consider why the settler-public and its national institutions like the Australian Football League are so invested with surrounding Indigenous stars with a discourse of childhood. Why might the AFL and settler society more broadly consider the possibility that Aboriginal men might ascend to adulthood such a terrifying proposition?
【摘要】澳大利亚足球的“古德斯传奇”将亚当·古德斯从一个忠实的足球之子的形象变成了一个两极分化的名人，其中最臭名昭著的是他与一名女青少年球迷的相遇。在这篇文章中，我们认为“古德斯传奇”暴露了土著名人的争议性，这些争议性源于定居者对不守规矩的孩子和土著政治家的焦虑。古德斯从一个体育明星，一个对体育运动尽职尽责的“儿子”，变成了一个政治政治家的全国名人——这种成年的地位可以被描述为“长者”的特征。古德斯自我塑造的名人形象，基于他的土著概念，即“脚踏两个世界”，他的使命是将土著文化实践融入这项运动和更广泛的定居者-澳大利亚文化。这些行动由于诉诸以欧洲为中心的儿童和童年是一种天真状态的概念而不断受到贬低。我们促使读者思考，为什么移民公众及其国家机构，如澳大利亚足球联盟(Australian Football League)，如此热衷于用童年话语来谈论周围的土著明星。为什么AFL和移民社会会更广泛地考虑原住民成年的可能性，这是一个如此可怕的命题?
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109311
Eva Maria Schörgenhuber
ABSTRACT This paper aims to investigate representations of celebrities’ children and childhood in the context of the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores how discourses around the famous offspring serve social and cultural functions within the celebrity context and beyond. The increased exposure of children in celebrities’ homes has created kinship ties through a strengthening of parasocial relationships through the performance and illusion of intimacy. Furthermore, this paper aims at understanding the larger implications of discourses around celebrities’ children in the US context. By employing Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of retrotopia, it will be argued that representations of celebrities’ children can be seen as idealised versions of the present which harken back to an imagined, romanticised past. This will be read in light of a current moment that is marked by precarious living conditions and national crises, the COVID-19 pandemic only being the most current one. Moreover, Lauren Berlant’s idea of national sentimentality will be used to show that these representations can also be seen as visions of futurity. It will be demonstrated how narratively and visually embedded illusions of intimacy create a glorified image of childhood and construct childhood and family as a place of comfort, refuge, and thereby futurity.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109297
Aysın Ece Acar
ABSTRACT Since the beginning of her career in the 1980s, Seda Sayan has become one of the biggest popular culture icons in Turkey, sustaining a multifaceted career in entertainment that includes singing, acting, and, most influentially, television. Sayan’s career trajectory from wedding singer to the ‘Sultan of the Mornings’ illustrates how the Turkish celebrity industry works, and the evolution of her persona as a talk show host tracks the development of the genre format in Turkey. This article considers Seda Sayan’s daytime talk shows in order to better understand how she built her televisual empire among strong competition to become an exceptional force in Turkish television history. Her shows illustrate identity construction practices over time and have secured her place in Turkish entertainment. Taking this chapter in Sayan’s career as its case study, this article offers a brief introduction to the operations of celebrity culture and contemporary media industries in Turkey.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109304
Anna Debinski
ABSTRACT What is it about girl stars, from Shirley Temple to Jodie Foster, that intensely and ambivalently capture the cultural imagination? I argue that child stars, often described as transitioning into adulthood too quickly or staying too long in childhood, challenge damaging social norms of bodily and behavioural development in ways that are sympathetic to disability experience. I use disability studies’ theory of ‘crip time’ and Kathryn Bond Stockton’s notion of the political potential of children ‘growing sideways’ alongside the case study of Patty Duke to demonstrate this productive subversiveness. Duke’s star persona, centred on her portrayal of the young deaf, blind, and uncommunicative Helen Keller in William Gibson’s Broadway play and Arthur Penn’s subsequent film, reveals the parallel developmental non-normativity of disability and child stardom.Through contradictory primary and paratextual evidence surrounding The Miracle Worker and Duke’s stardom, the application of crip time to notions of childhood celebrity, and a contextual understanding of public discourse surrounding childhood during the 1960s, I find that Duke and her characterisation of Keller embody a rejection of conventional understandings of ‘growing up’. Duke’s ambivalent childhood celebrity fractures the constructed ideal of normal development, revealing possibilities for valuable experience beyond the pressures of ableist notions of linear growth.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-03DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109303
Brett Farmer
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the juvenile career of Julie Andrews who was a child performer of considerable note in her native Britain during the immediate post-war period. Possessed of a remarkably developed singing voice, Andrews was feted as a musical child prodigy, and she performed widely in variety and radio as ‘Britain’s youngest singing star’. In an era of profound disruption, Andrews’ popular image as national wunderkind served – as the myth of the child star so often it does – as a resonant cultural fiction for the articulation of deeply felt ideological concerns and the fantastic reconciliation of social and emotional anxieties.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2105165
Q. Guo
ABSTRACT Pairing two male celebrities in both fictional and real-world intimate relationships has become a significant way for Chinese fans to consume celebrities especially over the last decade. Based on unobtrusive observation and semi-structured interviews, this research explores the entanglement and separation of fiction and reality in three CP fandoms pairing actors Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy, Jun Hu and Ye Liu, and Yunlong Zheng and Ayanga. The findings show that after first analysing and judging the celebrities’ potential real-world queer relationship as ‘not real’, ‘real but over’, and ‘real and ongoing’ (respectively), CP fans produce further fantasied creations and reality-based discussions centred on enjoying their own pleasure, gaining comfort from their celebrities’ experiences, or fulfiling the responsibility to support their celebrities. As fans increasingly emphasise celebrities’ real-world queer relationships, their CP practices not only reinforce fan-celebrity connections on a personal level but financially benefit their celebrities. Unlike the Western RPS genre that features purely fictional homosexual pairings, Chinese CP fandoms show increasingly prevalent reality-focused variations in celebrity consumption, which have been catered to by the entertainment industry and criticised by the Chinese public.
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