Fame and Everyday Life: The “Lottery Celebrities” of Reality TV

Press, Andrea L.; Williams, Bruce A.

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“…Scholars have implicated the entertainment media as an important aspect of contemporary life, from its intersections with contemporary politics (Jenkins 2006;Thompson 2000;Gamson 1994), to how it creates and reinforces ideas of social difference (Greenberg et al 2002;Entman and Rojecki 2000;Gamson 1998), to how it projects dominant ideologies (Gitlin 1979(Gitlin , 1983Horkheimer and Adorno 1972), to the place it has in forming contemporary identities (Press and Williams 2005;Jenkins 1992;Giddens 1991;Thompson 1990). Given this, a number of sociologists have taken up the task of understanding how and under what conditions mediated entertainment is made.…”

Section: The Significance Of Reputation In the Culture Industriesmentioning

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Reputation Work in Selling Film and Television: Life in the Hollywood Talent Industry

Zafirau

2007

Qual Sociol

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Reputation is an important feature in the interactional contexts of work in "culture industries" such as film and television production. But few accounts have examined how reputations are produced in the everyday worlds in which cultural producers live and work. This paper introduces the concept of "reputation work" to describe the front stage and back stage interactional processes through which cultural producers continuously strive to produce their reputations. Drawing on participant observation data gathered at a Hollywood talent management company and a business school course on the talent industry, this paper shows how Hollywood agents and managers perform four types of reputation work. These include how Hollywood talent representatives work to adhere to institutionalized conventions for reputable physical settings, group contexts, giftgiving practices, and selfhoods. Such reputation work performances are done for the sake of "impression management," but show how this strategic interaction is governed by industrywide institutions that govern legitimacy.

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Section: The Significance Of Reputation In the Culture Industriesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Reputation Work in Selling Film and Television: Life in the Hollywood Talent Industry

Zafirau

2007

Qual Sociol

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“…Partially due to the popularity of celebrity reality TV in Western culture, fame seems to have moved even further from the merits of talent and hard work, relying more and more on luck (Holmes 2006, p. 47). This type of celebrity is regarded as 'lottery celebrity' (Press and Williams 2005). Sports stars can be found as an exception, however, as they are often expected to serve as an appropriate role model for young people (Whannel 2002cited Turner 2015.…”

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‘Mingrenare the respectable ones’: an analysis of everyday engagements with contemporary celebrity culture in China

2019

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To investigate the values and social norms underpinning celebrity culture, it is crucial to study everyday uses of celebrity culture. Yet, studies in this area have been limited thus far, especially in non-Western contexts. This exploratory study focuses on the ways how young and middle-aged adults in everyday life in urban China discuss and value media celebrities. The results show that respondents have a rather similar way of valuing celebrity: celebrities need to have strong work ethics and showcase social responsibility; only then do they 'earn' their right to be considered 'famous'. We conclude that these values are closely related to the current socio-cultural situation of China's social transformation and echo the value system promoted by the Chinese government.

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Fabricating celebrity brands via scandalous narrative: crafting, capering and commodifying the comedian, Russell Brand

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Quinn

2015

Journal of Marketing Management

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© 2015, © 2015 Westburn Publishers Ltd. Abstract: Most marketing researchers with an interest in the mythic machinations of celebrity culture assume that being implicated in a scandal is detrimental to long-term brand-building efforts. However, our premise is that this assumption is often misguided. We argue that celebrities who court scandal sometimes find that the media coverage it precipitates – especially when the spun narrative is compelling – can significantly increase their brand value. To support our assertion, we begin by reviewing the literature on celebrity scandal. Following this, we illustrate how the creation of a scandalous narrative can fuel a celebrity career. To do so, we investigate the colourful career of the comedian-cum-revolutionary, Russell Brand. We conclude that, when combined, the 3Cs of his scandalous narrative – crafting, capering and commodifying – present, in combination, a viable means of gaining entry into the upper echelons of celebritydom

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Fame and Everyday Life: The “Lottery Celebrities” of Reality TV

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Reputation Work in Selling Film and Television: Life in the Hollywood Talent Industry

Reputation Work in Selling Film and Television: Life in the Hollywood Talent Industry

‘Mingrenare the respectable ones’: an analysis of everyday engagements with contemporary celebrity culture in China

Fabricating celebrity brands via scandalous narrative: crafting, capering and commodifying the comedian, Russell Brand

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