Celebrity and the Media introduces the reader to the key terms, concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity. In this insightful text Redmond explores the impacts of celebrity culture on the modern media and everyday life, drawing attention to the ways in which people experience celebrity culture and how celebrities are able to communicate through spectacle, ritual, the confession and the close-up. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies from the worlds of film, music, television, and sports, and featuring topical, current and popular celebrity examples, the book stands as a pertinent examination of the influence that celebrity has on the way people place themselves in the modern world.

Celebrity and the Media (Key Concerns in Media Studies, 5)

Humor & Entertainment

Redmond, Sean

Pop Culture

Bloomsbury Academic

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (Directors' Cuts)

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano's films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010).

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Wallflower Press

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano's films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010).

Celebrity (Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies)

Celebrity introduces the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity.  Drawing on two dynamic models from two different modes of enquiry – the circuit of celebrity culture and the circuit of celebrity affect – this book explores the multi-layered, multi-faceted contexts and concepts that sit within and surround the study of celebrity. Through building a critical story about celebrity, Sean Redmond discusses key topics such as identity and representation; the celebrity body; the consumption of celebrity and celebrity culture; and the sensory connection between fans and celebrities, gender, activism, gossip and toxicity.  Including case studies on Miley Cyrus, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson and Kate Winslet, Celebrity is a dynamic and topical volume ideal for students and academics in celebrity and cultural studies.

History

Americas

Routledge

Celebrity introduces the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity. Drawing on two dynamic models from two different modes of enquiry – the circuit of celebrity culture and the circuit of celebrity affect – this book explores the multi-layered, multi-faceted contexts and concepts that sit within and surround the study of celebrity. Through building a critical story about celebrity, Sean Redmond discusses key topics such as identity and representation; the celebrity body; the consumption of celebrity and celebrity culture; and the sensory connection between fans and celebrities, gender, activism, gossip and toxicity. Including case studies on Miley Cyrus, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson and Kate Winslet, Celebrity is a dynamic and topical volume ideal for students and academics in celebrity and cultural studies.

The discussion of the war body on screen is best served by drawing upon multiple and diverging view points, differing academic backgrounds and methodological approaches. A multi-disciplinary approach is essential in order to capture and interpret the complexity of the war body on screen and its many manifestations. In this collection, contributors utilize textual analysis, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, comparative analysis, narrative theory, discourse analysis, representation and identity as their theoretical footprints. Analysis of the impact of new media and information technologies on the construction and transmission of war bodies is also been addressed. The War Body on Screen has a highly original structure, with themed sections organized around ‘the body of the soldier'; ‘the body of the terrorist'; and ‘the body of the hostage'.

The War Body on Screen

Movies

Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies.Offers a detailed, systematic, and clear presentation of all aspects of celebrity studies, with a structure that carefully build its enquiryDraws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity analysesPresents new and provocative ways of exploring celebrity’s meanings and texturesConsiders the revolutionary ways in which new social media have impacted on the production and consumption of celebrity 

A Companion to Celebrity

Politics & Social Sciences

Marshall, P. David

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

The loneliness room: A creative ethnography of loneliness (Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography)

Manchester University Press

Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age (International Library of the Moving Image)

In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes. He argues that they reveal the profound effects the digital age has had on our social lives. Through narratives that feature the 'post-human', genetic engineering and cloning, surveillance and data mining, space and time travel, artificial intelligence, online dating cultures and visions of catastrophe, they portray a world in which the material, and the stable, are being lost to the ever-more volatile and ephemeral idea of 'liquid space'. Redmond examines a wide selection of popular films and TV series such as Gravity, Under the Skin, The Lobster, Children of Men and Doctor Who, to locate how traditional values are being erased in favour of a new liquid modernity. Drawing on an eclectic range of approaches from phenomenology to critical race theory, and from close textual analysis to the revelations of eye-tracking technology, this book is an illuminating account of the digital age through the lens of science fiction.

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

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Books by Redmond, Sean

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Celebrity and the Media (Key Concerns in Media Studies, 5)

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (Directors' Cuts)

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (Directors' Cuts)

Celebrity (Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies)

Celebrity (Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies)

The War Body on Screen

A Companion to Celebrity

Celebrity (Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies)

The loneliness room: A creative ethnography of loneliness (Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography)

Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age (International Library of the Moving Image)