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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Governing entertainment celebrities in China: practices, policies and politics (2005–2020)11
The rise and fall of the ‘King of Hanmai’—MC Tianyou10
FromParis is Burningto #dragrace: social media and the celebrification of drag culture9
Internationalising Celebrity Studies: turning towards Asia9
Fifteen seconds of fame: Rupaul’s drag race, camp and ‘memeability’8
The art of attracting attention: a process model of Chinese toubu vloggers’ strategies to create online identities and self-brands8
BTS for BLM: K-pop, Race, and Transcultural Fandom7
Celebrity in the #MeToo Era6
Performing nationalist populism in Turkey: an exploration of anti-Western, anti-elite and Muslim conservative undercurrents6
‘Assume the position: two queens stand before me’: RuPaul as ultimate queen5
Singaporean Influencers and Covid-19 on Instagram Stories5
Social media’s commodified, transgender ambassador: Caitlyn Jenner, celebrity activism, and social media5
‘No one is trash, no one is garbage, no one is cancelled’: the cultural politics of trauma, recovery and rage inRuPaul’s Drag Race4
Filter bubbles and guru effects: Jordan B. Peterson as a public intellectual in the attention economy4
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes4
Idols, celebrities, and fans at the time of post-catastrophe4
Performing whiteness: skin beauty as somatechnics in South Korean stardom and celebrity3
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?3
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism3
Analysing celebrity politics from Obama to Trump3
National populists: right-wing celebrity politicians in contemporary Europe3
Celebrity, Inc.: the self as work in the era of presentational culture online3
‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria3
Product endorsement on Slovak TV: Generation Y’s recall of celebrity endorsements and brands3
Look what you made them do: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out3
#ModiWithAkshay: ‘Brand Modi’, social media and Bollywood star power3
We’re all television stars in a pandemic3
Warburg’s dogs: Nobel laureates and scientific celebrity3
Crazy Rich Eurasians: white enough to be acceptable, Asian enough to be an asset2
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others2
Rewriting ‘herstory’: Sasha Velour’s drag as art and activism2
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship2
Drag celebrity impersonation as queer caricature in The Snatch Game2
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices2
French after all: the Hollywood career of Marion Cotillard2
Representing embodied expertise: anorexia and the celebrity athlete’s lifestyle advice2
Communication, class and the commodified self: exploring the divergent pathways to celebrity in the electro dance subculture2
‘Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent’: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the cultural politics of fame2
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood2
Working the red carpet: a framework for analysing celebrities’ red carpet labour2
The world according to Siderov: the rise of the far-right celebrity politician in Bulgaria2
The concept of an ‘anticelebrity’: a new type of antihero of the media age and its impact on modern politics2
Aunt Becky goes rogue: de-celebrification and de-mothering in the college cheating scandal, Operation Varsity Blues2
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era2
Forever Gor Gor, changing fans: Leslie Cheung posthumous fandom revisited2
Fame-bridging, stereotypes, and the celebrity labour of Anna Nicole Smith2
‘Labouring in the image’: celebrity, femininity, and the fully commodified self in the drag of Willam Belli2
Black Lives Matter in London, June 2020: Patrick Hutchinson, instant celebrity, and changing discourses of race and class in British media2
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame2
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction2
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism1
Chinese celebrity dossier: introduction1
‘Keep the fantasy within a circle’: Kai Wang and the paradoxical practices of Chinese real person slash fans1
Plotting the course: artistry, celebrity and kugak in South Korea1
Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity1
Razor-sharp charms: Hugh Grant’s image renegotiation and the turn to villains1
Historicising David Attenborough’s nature: nation, continent, country and environment1
The Dutch star on the flag of Europe: the personalisation of national identity in Geert Wilders’ celebrity politics1
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K1
‘To be a slut is to be free’: women in favela funk, performances of racialised femininity, and celebrity media1
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’1
The work of emotion in a digital age: ‘A trust betrayed’, ten years on1
Asian celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Asymmetries of power in transnational literary celebrity: the case of Elif Shafak’s bilingual website1
Aamir Khan and celebrity humanitarianism in Asia: towards a cosmopolitical persona1
The incredible, ageless Reeves: aging celebrity, aging fans, and nostalgia1
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet1
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest1
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday1
Ecological Wunderkind and heroic trollhunter: the celebrity saga of Greta Thunberg1
Senses of an ending: Danish reactions to the death of Elvis Presley in 19771
Introduction: transformations of celebrity studies: the inaugural issue, ten years on1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties” myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic1
Fiction and reality entangled: Chinese ‘coupling’ (CP) fans pairing male celebrities for pleasure, comfort , and responsibility1
‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’1
Cultural Report: Black Lives Matter and celebrity [Part Two]0
Cults of personality: the micro-celebrity work of independent professional wrestlers0
Millennial disentitlement: Greta Gerwig’s post-recession hipster stardom0
Crossover stardom on small screens: the case of Zhang Ziyi0
Teen TV0
From ‘stay home’ to #TakeOutHate: Asian-American and Southeast Asian celebrities in the pandemic0
Keanu Reeves’ body as battleground0
Keanu Reeves, John Wick, and the myths and tensions between star brands and franchise properties0
Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America0
Being ‘real’ in a staged sport: the process and negotiation of authenticity in wrestling star images0
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s online concert 20200
Teach your children well: Adam Goodes, from unruly child to Indigenous statesman0
Trammelled stars: the non-autonomy of female K-pop idols0
‘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
Rihanna’s empire of pain: sexualised violence and the black Madonna0
‘Natalie Wood Day’: sexual violence and celebrity remembrance in the #MeToo Era0
Pop ubiquity: Cameo Performance as Star Management0
A Touch More with Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird: authenticity, intimacy and women’s sports celebrity on Instagram live0
Fop, bounder and post-feminist father: Hugh Grant and the changing face of modern masculinity0
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: introduction0
Everything old is new again: reality television celebrity, the Hollywood studio system, and the battle for control of one’s image0
Scandal maketh the man? The evolution of Hugh Grant and the celebrity confessional0
Work that body: male bodies in digital culture0
Just a famous actor sitting in front of a judge: Hugh Grant’s presentation of self in the Leveson inquiry0
From Old Tom Morris to Andy Murray: an examination of the Scottishness of Scotland’s sporting celebrities0
‘But he has nothing on at all!’ Underground videos targeting Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s celebrity politician0
‘Prima donna in pigtails’: reading the child stardom of Julie Andrews0
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China0
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 ,0
‘Such emotional sterility proves ideal for the role’: Hugh Grant’s proto-celebrity and its media (self-)construction around Maurice0
Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame , by Caitlin E. Lawson, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 200
Lady Gaga and the sociology of fame: the rise of a pop star in an age of celebrity0
Taking the green pill? Keanu Reeves as ‘reluctant eco-celebrity’0
The larceny of the last second: the case for transcendence0
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming and Extraordinarily Ordinary: Us Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity0
Sarah Silverman goes digital: feminine satire in the age of Trump0
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity0
Infamous bodies: early black women’s celebrity and the afterlives of rights0
Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics0
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and Identity Formations0
Petty things and nemeses0
Introduction0
The child prodigy as a global celebrity: the chess wonder Samuel Reshevsky0
Editor’s introduction: professional wrestling and authenticity0
‘Enter the Brocktagon’: authenticity, artifice & the creation of the hybridised combat sports star0
David Bowie is the Englishman from Mars: an examination of Englishness through stardom0
Statement of Retraction: From sacrificing sister to star sister: the history of queer celebrity in Turkey0
Spectacular remains: Black celebrity, death and the aesthetics of autopsy0
Surviving authenticity: Acun Ilıcalı and/as his reality-entertainment enterprise0
‘Dolly “5 to 9”: manufactured authenticity, transmedia storytelling, and Parton’s star image’0
Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth0
Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism0
Asian cultures of authenticity: the authentic self narrative in sociological perspective or the case of Tóc Tiên’s celebrity biography0
Cultural report: Turkish celebrity dossier0
Starring Tom Cruise0
Amy Schumer and the limits of popular (white) feminist self-branding0
Nora Charles goes to rehab: making over Myrna Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives0
Cultural report: black lives matter and celebrity0
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI0
Why Karen Carpenter Matters0
Conchita Montenegro and the Spanish press: from national pride to nationalist melodrama0
Will the real Paris Hilton please stand up?: The personae, popular feminism, and female celebrity of Cooking with Paris0
Queering the pulpit: catholic clergy and media celebrity in the Republic of Ireland0
The cult of Russianicity: mobilising anti-fascist affect in Putin’s Russia0
Sultan of the mornings: Seda Sayan and daytime talk shows in Turkey0
Mother Teresa. the Saint and her nation Mother Teresa. the Saint and her nation , Gëzim AlpionBloomsbury, New Delhi, London, Oxford, New York, Sydney, 2020, 284 pp., £850
Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships0
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images0
Archiving Greer/Greer archiving: Germaine Greer’s curatorial labour, feminist celebrity studies and archival methodologies0
Pornography, ideology, and the internet: a Japanese adult video actress in Mainland China0
The child celebrity as palimpsest: reconceptualising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies0
Dolly Parton, gender, and country music0
Jon Hamm’s Post-Mad Men Persona and Representations of Hegemonic Masculinity0
Marilyn Monroe’s mystery house: reappraising Fifth Helena Drive0
Killing Conchita: celebrity persona (de/re)construction as artistic transformation0
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor: perfection as the prerequisite for visibility, commodification and activism0
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: Persona and promotion0
RETRACTED ARTICLE: From Sacrificing Sister to Star Sister: The History of Queer Celebrity in Turkey0
#blacklivesmatter in the WWE: professional wrestlers negotiating kayfabe and authentic rhetoric through online political engagement0
Introduction: celebrities for/against Trump0
Becky Lynch: ‘the Man’ behind the brand0
Introduction: celebrity between invisibility and hypervisibility0
Names shredded apart: Banksy, pseudonymity, and fame0
A Psychobiography of John F. Kennedy, Jr.: Understanding his Inner Life, Achievements, Struggles, and Courage0
Keeping Thomas Pynchon private: the limits to studying an ‘anonymous’ celebrity0
Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)0
The Continental Exotic sex symbol – Gal Gadot0
Celebrity in the Time of Covid: Fandom and the Influence of Pandemic Messaging Celebrity in the Time of Covid: Fandom and the Influence of Pandemic Messaging , by Christ0
The old man and the minotaur: Ernest Hemingway as fictionalized celebrity0
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller0
‘Forget it’s between two women’: negotiating a queer Virginia Woolf in Chanya Button’s Vita & Virginia0
A star is made, not born: the production and reproduction of Mae West as a screen icon0
Keanu’s late style: the ubiquitous art of short-form celebrity0
Queer and insufficiently Spanish: tensions of gender and national identity around the transnational stardom of Luis Mariano0
Cem Yilmaz, national stardom, transnational comedy0
You live, you learn: celebrity aging, emotional expression, and femininity in Alanis Morissette’s star story0
‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)0
‘A woman’s face and a child’s body’: Brooke Shields and child sexuality0
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood0
Beyoncé in the world: making meaning with Queen Bey in troubled times0
‘There’s more to middle age than a saggy belly’: gender, ageing, and agency in Kate Winslet’s post Weinstein star image0
Asian celebrities and the pandemic: misreading the room? A perspective from India0
‘Lying with you’: the filial coupling of Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg0
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
Death and celebrity: introduction0
Renaissance man: Hugh Grant’s performance of class, white Englishness, and joyfully mature masculinity0
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