Celebrity Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Celebrity Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere18
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K15
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’9
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations9
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images8
A socio-historical study of the emergence of celebrity culture in Iran: causes and roots8
Statement of Retraction: From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey8
Teen TV7
Influencers as role models6
The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal4
Keanu’s late style: the ubiquitous art of short-form celebrity4
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence4
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth4
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews4
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality4
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood4
Taboo and celebrity: a cross-linguistic case study on Woody Allen and incest3
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers3
The art of attracting attention: a process model of Chinese toubu vloggers’ strategies to create online identities and self-brands3
Rebel, playboy, hero: Jins Shamsuddin and Malay film stardom in the 1960s3
The godly girlboss3
From father to son, from son to daughter: redefining celebrity activism through defiant Burmese voices3
Nora Charles goes to rehab: making over Myrna Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives3
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller3
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: the personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris3
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship2
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise2
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability2
A Touch More with Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird: authenticity, intimacy and women’s sports celebrity on Instagram live2
Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics2
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame2
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet2
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?2
Disruptors in media rituals: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Playful Rebellion’ in converging television news2
Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines2
Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships2
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s online concert 20202
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies2
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia2
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI2
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity1
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)1
Asian celebrities and the pandemic: misreading the room? A perspective from India1
Ecological Wunderkind and heroic trollhunter: the celebrity saga of Greta Thunberg1
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor: perfection as the prerequisite for visibility, commodification and activism1
Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How VTubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity1
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey1
Attraction of knowledge celebrities: how they motivate users to pay for knowledge1
Women Comedians in the Digital Age: Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump Women Comedians in the Digital Age: Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump ,1
Translating the ‘untranslatable’: is it the way to become a translator celebrity?1
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity1
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest1
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others1
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity1
Hollywood stardom, glamour shots and poetry in 1930s Portugal: the cinephile poems of António Botto1
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)1
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna1
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Keanu Reeves’ body as battleground1
Chinese celebrity dossier: the politics of censorship governance0
Trammelled stars: the non-autonomy of female K-pop idols0
Sports celebrity to superhero: MS Dhoni, Indian cricket and the graphic novel0
RETRACTED ARTICLE: From Sacrificing Sister to Star Sister: The History of Queer Celebrity in Turkey0
Introduction to the special issue on social media influencers: performance, authenticity, and social media visibility0
Frontline celebrities featured: investigating the most engaged Douyin videos during Xi’an lockdown0
The Continental Exotic sex symbol – Gal Gadot0
Renaissance man: Hugh Grant’s performance of class, white Englishness, and joyfully mature masculinity0
Interrogating machoism, male celebrity rivalry and digital fandom practices in Nigerian Hip Hop0
‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’0
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China0
Singaporean Influencers and Covid-19 on Instagram Stories0
No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China0
Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman0
Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy0
Scandal maketh the man? The evolution of Hugh Grant and the celebrity confessional0
Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity0
Keanu Reeves, John Wick, and the myths and tensions between star brands and franchise properties0
The child prodigy as a global celebrity: the chess wonder Samuel Reshevsky0
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday0
The incredible, ageless Reeves: aging celebrity, aging fans, and nostalgia0
‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image0
Marc Maron: comedic persona and the limits of laughing at politics0
Mother Teresa: the saint and her nation0
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices0
Beyoncé in the world: making meaning with Queen Bey in troubled times0
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism0
‘Spill your guts or fill your guts’: Performative celebrity masochism and audience sadism in food challenge media0
Pop ubiquity: cameo performance as star management0
From grassroots to celebrities in healthcare– professionality as a new persona in China’s celebrity culture0
Razor-sharp charms: Hugh Grant’s image renegotiation and the turn to villains0
Asian celebrity and the pandemic: introduction0
#blacklivesmatter in the WWE: professional wrestlers negotiating kayfabe and authentic rhetoric through online political engagement0
Caught between China and Hollywood: the transnational journey of Jing Tian in The Great Wall (2016)0
Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity0
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’0
It is imperative and obtainable: the construction of confidence culture by female toubu vloggers on Xiaohongshu0
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood0
Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities0
From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators0
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand0
The cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: twenty-six short essays on a working star0
Correction0
Killing Conchita: celebrity persona (de/re)construction as artistic transformation0
Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame0
Introduction: celebrity between invisibility and hypervisibility0
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: introduction0
Jon Hamm’s post- Mad Men persona and representations of hegemonic masculinity0
Chinese celebrity and Wanghong economy: diversification, motivation and capitalisation0
From Old Tom Morris to Andy Murray: an examination of the Scottishness of Scotland’s sporting celebrities0
Cultural report: Turkish celebrity dossier0
Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism0
Marilyn Monroe’s mystery house: reappraising Fifth Helena Drive0
Being ‘real’ in a staged sport: the process and negotiation of authenticity in wrestling star images0
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: Persona and promotion0
Black Lives Matter in London, June 2020: Patrick Hutchinson, instant celebrity, and changing discourses of race and class in British media0
‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg0
Fiction and reality entangled: Chinese ‘coupling’ (CP) fans pairing male celebrities forpleasure, comfort, andresponsibility0
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes0
From ‘stay home’ to #TakeOutHate: Asian-American and Southeast Asian celebrities in the pandemic0
Senses of an ending: Danish reactions to the death of Elvis Presley in 19770
Starring Tom Cruise0
Female celebrities in digital age: the changing notions of stardom in Malayalam cinema0
Global icon or national star?: interpreting the contested star image of BLACKPINK’s Lisa in a transnational context0
Names shredded apart: Banksy, pseudonymity, and fame0
Asian cultures of authenticity: the authentic self narrative in sociological perspective or the case of Tóc Tiên’s celebrity biography0
Political capital and stardom in China: the transnational persona of Choo Ja-hyun0
BTS for BLM: K-pop, Race, and Transcultural Fandom0
Cem Yilmaz, national stardom, transnational comedy0
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism0
A star is made, not born: the production and reproduction of Mae West as a screen icon0
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction0
Infamous bodies: early black women’s celebrity and the afterlives of rights0
Editor’s introduction: professional wrestling and authenticity0
The concept of an ‘anticelebrity’: a new type of antihero of the media age and its impact on modern politics0
On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori0
Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline , edited by Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael, Renee Middlemost, and Jessica Balanzategui0
Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy0
Death and celebrity: introduction0
Keeping Thomas Pynchon private: the limits to studying an ‘anonymous’ celebrity0
‘You’re really going to be fine’: celebrity cameos, Toast (2010) and the British biopic0
Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer0
Officially cancelled but eternally remembered: the queering paradox of Chinese comedic influencers through multi-platform mediation0
Work that body: male bodies in digital culture0
‘Natalie Wood Day’: sexual violence and celebrity remembrance in the #MeToo Era0
Conchita Montenegro and the Spanish press: from national pride to nationalist melodrama0
Celebrity in the Time of Covid: Fandom and the Influence of Pandemic Messaging0
Spectacular remains: Black celebrity, death and the aesthetics of autopsy0
Crossover stardom on small screens: the case of Zhang Ziyi0
Lady Gaga and the sociology of fame: the rise of a pop star in an age of celebrity0
Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties” myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic0
‘Such emotional sterility proves ideal for the role’: Hugh Grant’s proto-celebrity and its media (self-)construction around Maurice0
‘Enter the Brocktagon’: authenticity, artifice & the creation of the hybridised combat sports star0
Cultural Report: Black Lives Matter and celebrity [Part Two]0
Tarkan’s Geççek from a celebrity capital perspective: the reflection of the political polarisation in post-pandemic Turkey in the reception of a pop song0
The changing nature of celebrity in musical theatre: the development of star casting0
Asymmetries of power in transnational literary celebrity: the case of Elif Shafak’s bilingual website0
Just a famous actor sitting in front of a judge: Hugh Grant’s presentation of self in the Leveson inquiry0
Cultural report: black lives matter and celebrity0
Aunt Becky goes rogue: de-celebrification and de-mothering in the college cheating scandal, Operation Varsity Blues0
You live, you learn: celebrity aging, emotional expression, and femininity in Alanis Morissette’s star story0
Petty things and nemeses0
Reimagining Leslie Cheung through Hanyuan Bookstore: the posthumous personalities of the queer Hong Kong celebrity0
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era0
Taking the green pill? Keanu Reeves as ‘reluctant eco-celebrity’0
Introduction0
Look what you made them do: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out0
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