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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Playing with Blackness: critical race humour and the shifting dynamics of Black identity in South Korean media21
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K18
Labubu: the ugly-cute toy celebrity of mainland China’s sang culture16
Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere12
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations9
Teen TV7
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’7
The animal celebrity phenomenon: Moo Deng and the digital construction of non-human fame6
Influencers as role models5
A socio-historical study of the emergence of celebrity culture in Iran: causes and roots5
The making of an Oceanic superhero: Dwayne Johnson, mixed identity, and non-conforming heroism in Black Adam (2022)5
Celebrity thirst traps: desire, play, and fandom5
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality5
Statement of Retraction: From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey5
Introduction: masculinity in crisis?4
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence4
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews4
Reconsidering the trainwreck: the racialised cultural revisionism of celebrity feminism4
‘Losing 640 million RMB with one finger’: Bai Baihe’s career crisis and the politicised star system in Xi’s era3
‘She really gets my blood boiling': moral judgements, dislike and celebrities3
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth3
The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal3
JK Rowling ’embodies the divisive and bigoted evil she once created a boy wizard to defeat’: investigating celebrified transphobia using field analysis and audience research3
Conceptualizing the ‘gossip genre’ in Nollywood: Digital Aestheticization of Celebrity Scandal and the Performance of Gossip in Truth or Dare3
The emerging national-style ‘husbandly sister’: the Yue opera cross-dressing performer Chen Lijun as a Chinese trans celebrity2
Taboo and celebrity: a cross-linguistic case study on Woody Allen and incest2
Retiring against time: media narratives of Momoe Yamaguchi’s ‘ageless myth’ and the ‘aging body’2
From father to son, from son to daughter: redefining celebrity activism through defiant Burmese voices2
‘Is Sivaji dead?’: doubling, star bodies and spectral histories in Tamil cinema2
Rebel, playboy, hero: Jins Shamsuddin and Malay film stardom in the 1960s2
What the Kendrick Lamar–Drake feud tells us about celebrity masculinities in online popular culture after #MeToo2
Exploring the rise of activism for LGBTQ+ rights in contemporary Thailand within Boys Love idol culture2
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: the personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris2
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise2
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller2
Fandom as multi-element citizenship: the dual politicisation of transnational K-pop fandom in China2
The holographic Atatürk: from commemorative pageantry to technological resurrection2
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers2
‘Bad vibes, forever?’: intersectionality, severity hedging and philanthropic redemption in the XXXTentacion fan community2
Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships1
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?1
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability1
Audio as star: rethinking celebrity beyond the visual1
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI1
Darshan , selfies, and the celebritisation of Bollywood stars in Australia1
‘Mulan’s legacy’ in contemporary Chinese women entrepreneurs: reading the image of Pansy Ho1
Algorithmic-driven exposure: hyper-saturation and ever-expansion in the content creator ecosystem1
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity1
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)1
Zhang Ce: small-town youth and auteur celebrity1
Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How VTubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
A ‘local king’ in Taiwan: Jacky Wu, localised culture and celebrity entrepreneurship1
Disruptors in media rituals: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Playful Rebellion’ in converging television news1
The godly girlboss1
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies1
Attraction of knowledge celebrities: how they motivate users to pay for knowledge1
‘You are from the country of @iamsrk. I trust you’: Shah Rukh Khan, transnational stardom and counteracting the problematics of the Muslim celebrity in contemporary India1
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand1
Governing Asian celebrity1
Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Translating the ‘untranslatable’: is it the way to become a translator celebrity?1
Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines1
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity1
Crisis, conflict and the affective politics of celebrity failure: Britney Spears, Meghan Markle and the spectacle of (misplaced) feminine fame1
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
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia1
Glitching into popularity: an analysis of how K-pop fans conceptualise authenticity in virtual K-pop idols PLAVE and MAVE1
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey1
‘Somehow, Iger returned’: brand fandom, cultural intermediaries and the contested authorship of Disney’s celebrity CEOs1
Celebrification of transgender sportswomen through critical media coverage: the first step towards acknowledgement in Central European countries1
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna1
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity1
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies1
Hollywood stardom, glamour shots and poetry in 1930s Portugal: the cinephile poems of António Botto1
Interrogating machoism, male celebrity rivalry and digital fandom practices in Nigerian Hip Hop0
The memoir and the mediated self: the crafting and performance of Madhur Jaffrey’s persona in climbing the Mango Trees (2006)0
Sports celebrity to superhero: MS Dhoni, Indian cricket and the graphic novel0
Chinese celebrity and Wanghong economy: diversification, motivation and capitalisation0
Officially cancelled but eternally remembered: the queering paradox of Chinese comedic influencers through multi-platform mediation0
Razor-sharp charms: Hugh Grant’s image renegotiation and the turn to villains0
Jon Hamm’s post- Mad Men persona and representations of hegemonic masculinity0
Forum introduction: public desire and intimate longing0
Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy0
TransExploitation: the case of Zulma Lobato in Argentine celebrity culture0
Global (post)feminist icon? Celebrity feminism, diplomacy, and Eileen Gu’s star persona in China and the US0
Chinese celebrity dossier: the politics of censorship governance0
Hate content and gendered shaming in Vietnamese social media: the case study of Trấn Thành0
No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China0
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday0
‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg0
Being ‘real’ in a staged sport: the process and negotiation of authenticity in wrestling star images0
You live, you learn: celebrity aging, emotional expression, and femininity in Alanis Morissette’s star story0
Crisis and capitalism: discourses of British royal celebrity in the 21st century0
Asian cultures of authenticity: the authentic self narrative in sociological perspective or the case of Tóc Tiên’s celebrity biography0
Mom celebrities of Instagram: a literary analysis of momfluencing culture in Ellery Lloyd’s People Like Her (2021)0
Just a famous actor sitting in front of a judge: Hugh Grant’s presentation of self in the Leveson inquiry0
Becoming Ye Xiu: fictional celebrity and platformed fame in The King’s Avatar0
Editor’s introduction: professional wrestling and authenticity0
Celebrity in the Time of Covid: Fandom and the Influence of Pandemic Messaging0
A star is made, not born: the production and reproduction of Mae West as a screen icon0
Hero Alom and the politics of cringe: Bengali-networked publics in the age of platform visibility0
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’0
Spectacular remains: Black celebrity, death and the aesthetics of autopsy0
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
Satire or submission? Heteropessimism and Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend0
‘The photograph is handsome, as is the boy’: the ‘hot felony’ of Luigi Mangione0
Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman0
Fictional celebrity0
History ‘for the gram’: AI beauty and the vintage, analogue, and ‘throwback’ celebrity0
Introduction: celebrity between invisibility and hypervisibility0
Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy0
Staging sexuality: Susana Estrada’s transmedia stardom and emancipation in Spain’s Transition to democracy0
Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties” myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic0
Introduction: trans celebrity in the 21st century0
Death and celebrity: introduction0
The labour of decline: between resistance and capture in Chiung Yao’s final act0
‘You’re really going to be fine’: celebrity cameos, Toast (2010) and the British biopic0
Scandal maketh the man? The evolution of Hugh Grant and the celebrity confessional0
From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators0
Celebrity, power and visibility as understood by trans and nonbinary youth: identification as building a community of care0
Fan-based civic and humanitarian action: the case study of the BTS fan community Borahae from Manila0
The co-creation of trans microcelebrity: a case study of Nikkie de Jager0
Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism0
#blacklivesmatter in the WWE: professional wrestlers negotiating kayfabe and authentic rhetoric through online political engagement0
Kawaii kayfabe: understanding the co-construction of Indonesian VTuber talents’ online personas0
‘Such emotional sterility proves ideal for the role’: Hugh Grant’s proto-celebrity and its media (self-)construction around Maurice0
Marc Maron: comedic persona and the limits of laughing at politics0
Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity0
Dis/reappearing: trans celebrity autobiography and neoliberal politics of (in)visibility in postsocialist China0
The changing nature of celebrity in musical theatre: the development of star casting0
Female celebrities in digital age: the changing notions of stardom in Malayalam cinema0
Mother Teresa: the saint and her nation0
Everything, everywhere, all at once: Michelle Yeoh’s Malaysian stardom in a global context0
Cem Yilmaz, national stardom, transnational comedy0
Ferdinand the Third: historical revisionism and the celebrity construction of Sandro Marcos0
Mainstreaming wanghong in the international press discourse0
Senses of an ending: Danish reactions to the death of Elvis Presley in 19770
It is imperative and obtainable: the construction of confidence culture by female toubu vloggers on Xiaohongshu0
Introduction0
Introduction to the special issue on social media influencers: performance, authenticity, and social media visibility0
‘I’m a normal girl with strong values’. Spanish influencers’ documentaries, celebrity status and the centrality of the family0
Pop ubiquity: cameo performance as star management0
Political capital and stardom in China: the transnational persona of Choo Ja-hyun0
The Continental Exotic sex symbol – Gal Gadot0
The 1950s shit: pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby0
Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities0
Correction0
‘Spill your guts or fill your guts’: Performative celebrity masochism and audience sadism in food challenge media0
Reimagining Leslie Cheung through Hanyuan Bookstore: the posthumous personalities of the queer Hong Kong celebrity0
RETRACTED ARTICLE: From Sacrificing Sister to Star Sister: The History of Queer Celebrity in Turkey0
Curated proximity: KissCross and the architecture of distance in Thai virtual idol culture0
Renaissance man: Hugh Grant’s performance of class, white Englishness, and joyfully mature masculinity0
Frontline celebrities featured: investigating the most engaged Douyin videos during Xi’an lockdown0
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
Killing Conchita: celebrity persona (de/re)construction as artistic transformation0
‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur -directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe0
On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori0
Names shredded apart: Banksy, pseudonymity, and fame0
Jordan Peterson’s hollow core0
A case study of a trans/gender-diverse celebrity statesperson: on Audrey Tang’s political radicalness and Taiwan’s global image0
The politics of celebrity fandom in Asia dossier: introduction0
‘Natalie Wood Day’: sexual violence and celebrity remembrance in the #MeToo Era0
Marilyn Monroe’s mystery house: reappraising Fifth Helena Drive0
Crossover stardom on small screens: the case of Zhang Ziyi0
Exposing Russell Brand: navigating allegations of sexual misconduct and appealing to the manosphere0
Global icon or national star?: interpreting the contested star image of BLACKPINK’s Lisa in a transnational context0
‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image0
Asian celebrity cultures in the digital age0
‘You’ve got to thank toxic masculinity:’ Joe Rogan, crisis celebrity and cultural remasculinisation0
Constructing a realm of memory for a deceased star in mainland China: Leslie Cheung and spirit tablets0
Introduction: Local Celebrity0
From grassroots to celebrities in healthcare– professionality as a new persona in China’s celebrity culture0
From corridors of power to red carpets: cultural policies towards celebrity culture in Iran, 1941–20240
Caught between China and Hollywood: the transnational journey of Jing Tian in The Great Wall (2016)0
’There’s just so many amazing things you can do when you’re not having sex’. Julia Fox and the online discourse of celibacy among heterosexual women0
Child influencers: How children become entangled with social media fame0
Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity0
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism0
‘Enter the Brocktagon’: authenticity, artifice & the creation of the hybridised combat sports star0
The cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: twenty-six short essays on a working star0
Volodymyr Zelensky: from TV series to presidency to war. The metamorphoses of a celebrity politician0
Involuntary celebrity: the outing of Christine Jorgensen0
Starring the menomoir: celebrity narratives and menopause literacy0
Cultural report: Turkish celebrity dossier0
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era0
‘Ya’ll know this is just my opinion, right?’: Anthony Fantano’s cultivation of authenticity and digital celebrity through memes0
Trust, fame, and celebrity politics: audience perception and celebrity credibility in political discourse0
Celebrity crises and conflicts: introduction to the 2024 conference special issue0
Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame0
The politics of kinship: social credit, digital vigilantism, and celebrity governance in China0
‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’0
Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer0
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