Disassembling the Celebrity Figure

Celia Lam, Ph.D. (2011), University of Sydney, is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. She has published on celebrity and fan studies, including Becoming Brands: Celebrity, Activism and Politics (WaterHill, 2017). Jackie Raphael, Ph.D. (2013), Curtin University, is a sessional academic at that university. She has published various papers and books including Becoming Brands: Celebrity, Activism and Politics (2017) and Building Bridges in Celebrity Studies (2016).Millicent Weber, Ph.D. (2016), Monash University, is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her work on publishing and literary culture appears in Convergence and Continuum, and most recently in Publishing Means Business: Australian Perspectives (Monash University Publishing, 2017).

• Assembling Celebrity AnalysisCelia Lam, Jackie Raphael and Millicent WeberPart I Constructed Authenticity: Fan Consumption of Celebrity PersonaJohnny’s Idol Persona Constructions and Female Fandom ConsumptionAliah Mansor‘Everyone is so Cynical’: On Authenticity in the World of GagaLise Dilling-NielsenParticipatory Consumption of Celebrity Products: Gangnam Style and its ParodiesMingyi HouPart II Deconstructing Authenticity: ‘Getting Backstage’ Behind Celebrity PersonasStars Are Like Us: a Discourse Analysis of Printed Celebrity PressMirella MainesBackstage Spaces: The Sherlock IncidentCelia LamEvery Breath You Take: Sasaeng FansRenata IwickaPart III Structured Authenticity: Eternal Celebrity BrandsPaul Walker: The Facts and the FictionJackie RaphaelTrapped: James Douglas Morrison and His Enduring Celebrity PersonaKylo-Patrick R. HartPart IV Reconstructed Authenticity: Contemporary Re-Imagining of Historical FiguresDid it Really Happen? Celebrity and AuthenticityEphraim Das JanssenThe Biopic Bias and Becoming JaneMagdalen Wing-Chi KiShamadeus? Reconstructing Mozart: The Continuing Impact of Amadeus and Myths on Mozart ReceptionMarie Josephine Bennett