Celebrity Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Celebrity Studies is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Governing entertainment celebrities in China: practices, policies and politics (2005–2020)18
The art of attracting attention: a process model of Chinese toubu vloggers’ strategies to create online identities and self-brands14
BTS for BLM: K-pop, Race, and Transcultural Fandom10
Internationalising Celebrity Studies: turning towards Asia10
Singaporean Influencers and Covid-19 on Instagram Stories8
#ModiWithAkshay: ‘Brand Modi’, social media and Bollywood star power8
Look what you made them do: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out6
Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: a case study on Keanu Reeves memes6
Free Britney, b**ch!: femininity, fandom and #FreeBritney activism4
Aunt Becky goes rogue: de-celebrification and de-mothering in the college cheating scandal, Operation Varsity Blues4
On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood4
Filter bubbles and guru effects: Jordan B. Peterson as a public intellectual in the attention economy4
What makes the giant panda a celebrity?4
Idols, celebrities, and fans at the time of post-catastrophe4
Do parasocial relationships with micro- and mainstream celebrities differ? An empirical study testing four attributes of the parasocial relationship3
Black celebrity matters: on the instability of fame3
Heritage child stars on Disney+: the liquidities of child stardom in the SVOD era3
Performing whiteness: skin beauty as somatechnics in South Korean stardom and celebrity3
‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria3
Communication, class and the commodified self: exploring the divergent pathways to celebrity in the electro dance subculture3
The concept of an ‘anticelebrity’: a new type of antihero of the media age and its impact on modern politics3
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: introduction3
Crazy Rich Eurasians: white enough to be acceptable, Asian enough to be an asset2
Forever Gor Gor, changing fans: Leslie Cheung posthumous fandom revisited2
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices2
Black Lives Matter in London, June 2020: Patrick Hutchinson, instant celebrity, and changing discourses of race and class in British media2
A Touch More with Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird: authenticity, intimacy and women’s sports celebrity on Instagram live2
Celebrity myth-making: from Marilyn M. to Kim K2
Ecological Wunderkind and heroic trollhunter: the celebrity saga of Greta Thunberg2
Homemade pet celebrities: the everyday experience of micro-celebrity in promoting the self and others2
Death and celebrity: introduction2
‘Obituary, gender, and posthumous fame: the New York Times Overlooked project’2
Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’2
Senses of an ending: Danish reactions to the death of Elvis Presley in 19772
Meet our baby: celebrities’ children and childhood between comfort, refuge, and futurity2
The incredible, ageless Reeves: aging celebrity, aging fans, and nostalgia2
Aamir Khan and celebrity humanitarianism in Asia: towards a cosmopolitical persona2
Fiction and reality entangled: Chinese ‘coupling’ (CP) fans pairing male celebrities forpleasure, comfort, andresponsibility2
The Elon Musk experience: celebrity management in financialised capitalism2
‘To be a slut is to be free’: women in favela funk, performances of racialised femininity, and celebrity media1
Plotting the course: artistry, celebrity and kugak in South Korea1
Being ‘real’ in a staged sport: the process and negotiation of authenticity in wrestling star images1
Razor-sharp charms: Hugh Grant’s image renegotiation and the turn to villains1
From Old Tom Morris to Andy Murray: an examination of the Scottishness of Scotland’s sporting celebrities1
Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties” myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic1
‘Are Di would of loved it’: reanimating Princess Diana through dolls and AI1
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic: Aaron Kwok’s online concert 20201
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation: French newspaper coverage of the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday1
Asian celebrity and the pandemic: introduction1
Asymmetries of power in transnational literary celebrity: the case of Elif Shafak’s bilingual website1
Challenging normalcy through stardom: childhood celebrity, disability, and Patty Duke’s Helen Keller1
Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer1
Black Lives Matter 2014–2020: celebrity flashpoints and iconic images1
Millennial disentitlement: Greta Gerwig’s post-recession hipster stardom1
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest1
‘The Scottish Warrior’ Drew McIntyre: celebrity-commodity, symbolic ethnicity and authenticity1
Taking the green pill? Keanu Reeves as ‘reluctant eco-celebrity’1
Asian cultures of authenticity: the authentic self narrative in sociological perspective or the case of Tóc Tiên’s celebrity biography1
The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’sMarilyn Diptych1
Historicising David Attenborough’s nature: nation, continent, country and environment1
‘Too good for this world:’ Keanu Reeves, God of the Internet1
The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability1
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