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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture
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'This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations.

'Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields – actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities – and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australia’s colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption.

'This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies.'  (Publication summary)

Contents

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Introduction : ‘Gendering Australian Celebrity’,, Anthea Taylor , Joanna McIntyre , single work criticism
‘From Mild Colonial Boy to Jake the Paed : Rolf Harris and Australian Celebrity Masculinity in the UK’, Tanya Serisier , single work criticism
‘The Manly Whiteness of Russell Crowe’,, Sean Redmond , single work criticism
Johnathan Thurston, Indigeneity, and Technologies of Masculinity in Australian Sporting Celebrity Culture’,, Holly Randell-Moon , single work criticism
Celebritised Anger : Theorising Feminist Rage, Voice, and Affective Injustice through Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette’,, Jilly Kay Boyce , single work criticism
Clementine Ford, Online Misogyny, and the Labour of Celebrity Feminism’, Anita Brady , single work criticism
"Good" Girl Turned "bad": Tracey Spicer’s Memoir, Celebrity Feminist Journalism, and #MeToo Activism in Australia’, Anthea Taylor , single work criticism
‘Interviewing a Queer National Celebrity : Carlotta as an "outsider within" Australian Celebrity Culture’, Joanna McIntyre , single work criticism
‘"It Was Nice for Me Watching That, because [Magda Szubanski] Was Very Calming" : LGBTIQ+ Australians Respond to Marriage Equality Activism’, Lucy Watson , single work criticism
"I Can Call Myself Australian If I Want to" : Natalie Tran and Asian Australian Femininity on YouTube’, Sara Tomkins , single work criticism
Disarming Femininity : Annabel Crabb, Celebrity, Politics and Culture’, Frances Bonner , single work criticism
‘"Australian TV’s Golden Girl" : Asher Keddie, Offspring, and the Celebrity Motherhood Narrative’, Renee Middlemost , single work criticism

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Routledge ,
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 236p.
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      • Published August 1, 2022
      ISBN: 9780367681760
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