Key terms
What are the key terms and theories discussed in the readings for today, in today's lecture and/or in today's class discussion? Feel free to define any of them, or not; put today's date and your initials on the bottom of the post, and thank you.
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Celebrity Watchwords (pp 9-20)
Celebrity: attribution of glamorous or notorious status to an individual within the public sphere
Cultural Intermediaries: agents who stage-manage celebrity presence in the eyes of the public (publicists, stylists, photogs, personal trainers)
Mead's "I" vs. "Me" split
Renown: informal attribution of distinction on an individual within a given social network; depends on reciprocal personal or direct para-social contact. According to Rojek, renown is in direct contrast with celebrity, as celebrity implies a social distance from its audience.
Celebrity Emergence is the result of: 1. the democritization of society, 2. decline in organized religion and 3. commodification of everyday life.
Ideology of the Common Man
Public Sphere
Mediagenic
Confirmation, Normalization and Cognitive Dissonance in re: to public interaction with celebrity when media representation is not present
Three forms of celebrity status:
Ascribed
Achieved
Attributed
Pseudo-event
Pre-figurative celebrity
(forgot to leave my initials) MM
Key words for pgs. 9-20 in Rojek
Celebrity
Glamour
Notoriety
I
Me
Renown
Celebrification
Confirmation
Normalization
Cognitive Dissonance
Ascribed Celebrity
Achieved Celebrity
Attributed Celebrity
Celetoid
Pre-Figurative Celebrity
Sensitive ego
Aesthetics
Aestheticization (of everyday life)
Interaction tonus
Public face
Fashion
Cultural capital
Sartorial
Surplus vitality of unconscious and subconscious desire
Caesarism
Energetic individualism
Habitus
-RT
Celebrity Terms: (pp. 29-33)
Subjectivist
Pre-figuritive Celebrity: i.e. Jesus, Alexander the Great, meaning before photographs, mass media
Max Weber
Charisma - gift, attributed, a type of power
Power - ability to get someone to do something they wouldn't normally do.
surds-towards the inexplicable
Notoriety & Transgressions
authority - (3 types)
-Legal Rational
-Traditional
-Charisma
Structuralism
Frankfurt School
Ideology
false consciousness
-EP
Celebrity Keywords (pp. 33-43)
Structuralism
Three Social structures used to understand Celebrity:
1) the culture industry
2) Governmentality
3)Type Theory
CI:
Frankfort School
Marcuse
Debord
Morin
Gov:
Foucault
Marshall
TT:
Klapp
Goffman
Studlar
co-opts
repressive desublimation
antinomian
discourses of power
audience subjectivities
scripts, roles,performances
woman made masculinity
-DG
Hey All -
Just wanted to share that in Rojek's book Fame Attack (2012) he continues where our class discussion left off on Wednesday. Here are terms he uses in his latest work that he puts under the umbrella term "Fame Attack":
Celebrity Worship Syndrome - super close identification to celebs, leading to dysfunctional behavior (mass shootings?)
Star Paranoia - the belief that celebs 'get away with it all' and we suffer. Star paranoia promotes anger & bitterness about celebs in general and may metastasize into vigilantism against celebs.
NPD - Narcissistic Personality Disorder - the innate sense of superiority/entitlement indifferent to social/personal consequences.
He puts these real clinical disorders under the umbrella of "Fame Attack" meaning that celebrity culture leaves us wanting so bad, makes us crave fame, it's actually sickened us and lies at the heart of our social ills. Thoughts?
-EP
Hi -
Sorry so late, here are some concepts/terms from 3/4's discussion and reading of celeb troubles:
Righteous Slaughter
Durkheim's Egoistic suicide/altruistic suicide
"we live in a culture of achievement" that has caused some who have not been able to achieve anything legitimately to go the other route (hence profusion of celetoids, i.e. mass shooting/rtv celetoids/shows).
Celebrities bound to transgression -
1) opportunity to transgress 2) opportunity to not get caught 3) sense of entitlement 4) everyone does it 5) consistency credits
The Public face transgresses/ different set of rules than veridical self
Durkheim - important for transgressions to be made public so we know what not to do
Folie a deux - madness by two, trasmitted from one party to the next.
-A non-celebrity encouraging transgressions is valuable to maintaining fame. Is this person worse than the celeb doing the transgression?
-EP
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