Frontierism: “The Frontier Thesis,” Affect, and the Category of Achieved Celebrity

Rojek, Chris

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“…We can see several celebrities who have the name and fame have their own stories and struggle for success. Rojek (2016) defines various kinds of celebrities. An ascribed celebrity is the kind of celebrity who gets their name and fame from their family background and lineage.…”

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Manisha Koirala’s Celebrity Persona: A Case Study

Lamichhane

2024

Am. J. Arts Hum. Sci.

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This qualitative study delves into the life and career of actress Manisha Koirala, particularly focusing on authenticity, philanthropy and activism, ageing, and scandal. The study explores Manisha Koirala’s public persona, her active engagement in philanthropic activities, her perceived authenticity, and her career in the film industry. Furthermore, this research explores the challenges and difficulties posed by ageing and how she is dealing with them in her life and career. It also studies how she reacts to the scandal in the media and how it shapes her image in the public eye after the scandal. The research used case study as the methodology to study several aspects of Manisha Koirala’s life and career by gathering information from various sources, such as news stories, media reports, her public statements, and interviews. The findings of this study are that through her acting and activities, she is an authentic celebrity and takes the scandal news positively without reacting or embracing the ageing process.

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Manisha Koirala’s Celebrity Persona: A Case Study

Lamichhane

2024

Am. J. Arts Hum. Sci.

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“…Social media platforms provide many opportunities for such intimate acts (Xu et al, 2022). Because the perceived intimacy is inherently intertwined with parasocial interaction, the perceived intimacy with media actors is the essence of parasocial relationships (Rojek, 2015).…”

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Parasocial Intimacy and Fan Culture with K-Pop Artists in Indonesian Digital Media: A Study of Fan-Idol Relationships on Social Media Platforms

Salsabila Syawal

2023

Edunity

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This research explores parasocial intimacy within Indonesian K-pop fandom, examining how digital media shapes fan-idol relationships. Using a qualitative approach and literature study method, this research investigates the mechanisms that underlie parasocial phenomena, fan culture and digital media. This research finds that the significant role of social media in providing fans with glimpses into their idols' personal and professional lives, enhancing socio-emotional connections. While existing recognizes the impact of cultural context on fan dynamics, emphasizing the need for future research to explore factors like gender, age, and social background. This study contributes to the global conversation on parasocial intimacy and fan-idol relationships in the digital age.

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“…According to Rojek (2001, 2016), ‘achieved celebrity’ – a category referring to those who have gained celebrity status through perceived accomplishments in a given field – came to the fore as part of a growing mass culture that had taken hold by the 1840s, thus replacing the age of ascribed celebrity. The drive towards achieved celebrity is characterized by a ‘frontierism’ which, in contrast to the founding stories of the American pioneers’ conquest of the horizontal frontier through demonstration of character and the acquisition of property, is based on a ‘vertical (stratified) frontier) and the accumulation of attention capital’ (Rojek, 2016: 381). This conquest is accompanied by the development of personality and challenges existing norms, hierarchies and social mores.…”

Section: Celebrity Status and Valuementioning

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“…This conquest is accompanied by the development of personality and challenges existing norms, hierarchies and social mores. Charles Dickens and Richard Wagner are two celebrities who typify this conquest of the vertical frontier in their capacity as achieved celebrities (Rojek, 2016). In deploying their creative output, both draw attention to their humble origins (thus ensuring a connection with the people) but also, with the assistance of cultural intermediaries, seek to utilize the technologies of the mass era in order to promote themselves and their works.…”

Section: Celebrity Status and Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In deploying their creative output, both draw attention to their humble origins (thus ensuring a connection with the people) but also, with the assistance of cultural intermediaries, seek to utilize the technologies of the mass era in order to promote themselves and their works. As Rojek (2016: 385) observes, both ‘ruthlessly pursued a programmatic vision of personal renown that was designed to bulldoze the frontier of achieved celebrity and outlast their mortal days’. With reference to a quite different kind of celebrity, in contrast, scholars have drawn attention to the increasing significance of attributed or ‘ordinary’ celebrities, as part of a ‘demotic turn’ in contemporary celebrity culture, involving ‘‘ordinary’ people, with no special abilities and achievements, as the ‘talent’’ (Turner, 2010: 58).…”

Section: Celebrity Status and Valuementioning

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Celebrity status and the attribution of value

Stewart¹,

Giles

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The concept of status is in the background of much research on celebrity but rarely made explicit, so in this collection of articles we seek to intervene by drawing attention to the usefulness of the concept in understanding the attribution of value in celebrity culture. We consider that celebrity status derives from an accumulation of social esteem or disparagement based on the countless evaluative judgements, positive or negative, that accumulate in media and wider public discourse. We conceptualize celebrity status as operating within and relating to the social fields that celebrities occupy and move between. Analysing status within the context of fields enables us to better account for how celebrity status is accrued and/or lost within particular social fields in accordance with field-specific criteria and in relation to wider shifting cultural, political and technological contexts. The articles in this special issue have in common an attentiveness to the evaluative criteria by which celebrities are judged as they move from field to field, and as their status undergoes a transformation – for better or worse – in the field they occupy. Ultimately, we argue that the status attributed to celebrities tells us much about how value is attributed, distributed and accumulated in contemporary society.

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Frontierism: “The Frontier Thesis,” Affect, and the Category of Achieved Celebrity

Cited by 4 publications

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Manisha Koirala’s Celebrity Persona: A Case Study

Manisha Koirala’s Celebrity Persona: A Case Study

Parasocial Intimacy and Fan Culture with K-Pop Artists in Indonesian Digital Media: A Study of Fan-Idol Relationships on Social Media Platforms

Celebrity status and the attribution of value

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