Redmond, Sean 2016, Sensing celebrities. In Marshall, P. David and Redmond, Sean (ed), A companion to celebrity, Wiley Blackwell, London, Eng., pp.385-400.
Sensing celebrities involves recognition of the way complementary sensory-based elements come together to create, produce and transmit levels of affect and intensities. This chapter explores celebrity through the lens of sensory aesthetics. It begins by defining sensory aesthetics, linking it to the phenomenology of celebrity, and particularly the work of Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks. The chapter draws upon the unique concept of the celebaesthetic subject to address the intersubjective relationship between fan and celebrity. Using Miley Cyrus as a case study, the chapter draws into the analysis the issue of gender and race, and the way conductive “skin” can be made to function as a sensory stereotype. It highlights that mobilization of the celebrity senses touched by transgression may be best understood to take place through the confession, and in the celebrity carnival.
ISBN
9781118475072
Language
eng
Field of Research
200212 Screen and Media Culture
Socio Economic Objective
970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing
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