Monday, January 7, 2013

Collective Celebrities

Please post any ideas that relate the study of celebrity with seeing collectives like sports teams, rock bands and corporations as celebrities.

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Unknown said...

ROJEK 20-29 Key Terms:

Celetoids: a media generated, compressed, concentrated form of an attributed celebrity.

"celetoids are the accessories of cultures organized around mass communications and staged authenticity."
examples of celetoids: lottery winners, one-hit wonders, stalkers, whistleblowers, sports' arena speakers, have-a-go heroes, mistresses of public figures
Celetoids often only receive short term recognition

Kitsch Culture: a culture in which the conventions of normative order are established by the operations of manufactures novelties and planned sensations orchestrated by the mass-media

Celeactor: a fictional character who is either momentarily ubiquitous or becomes an institutionalized feature of popular culture.

Celeactors have no veridical self, the public face is entirely a fictional creation. They are often designed to embody stereotypes and prejudices in popular culture.

Examples of Celeactors: Carrie Bradshaw, Harry Potter, the Fonz, James Bond, Archie Bunker, etc.