Celebrity Studies

In this essay, we focus on Zheng Shuang's surrogacy scandal to explore the moral and cultural logics of entertainment governance in China. The official media enacted moral discourses related to traditional cultural values and women's right to frame the regulatory measures, which resonated with people's sense of morality, emotions, and expectations about entertainment celebrities. Given the fact that the official discourses about the scandal gained popular support, we argue that banning celebrities with 'lapsed morals', rather than a regulatory move imposed from top-down, was constructed out of the consensus between the official and public discourses.

Di Cui

Fang Wu

The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal

郑爽代孕丑闻：民意共识下的名人治理话语建构

Tingting Liu

Siyun Dong

No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China

不再“另类”，而是“正能量”艺术家：纪念张国荣在中国大陆

Tingting Hu

Erika Ningxin Wang

Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy

网络民族主义与名人：张哲瀚争议

Commercial music artists seek celebrity capital, which has central value in the music industry and broader society. Previous literature suggests that besides advantages, fame is connected to interpersonal issues in close relationships. The marginalised celebrity discourses emerging from well-known artists’ close interpersonal relationships are examined to better understand the interpersonal dynamics of fame. Relational dialectics theory is applied to study celebrity discourses in the romantic relationships of 11 Finnish music artists. Contrapuntal analysis of the data indicates that fame emerges as competing celebrity discourses privileging separateness, closedness, asymmetry, publicity and inauthenticity. The discursive interplays illuminate the dominating celebrity persona, increased mistrust, social and emotional distance, and asymmetrical power dynamics in artists’ romantic relationships. These meaning-systems are linked to decreased self-disclosure and increased social distance, which are negatively connected to relationship formation and maintenance. The dominant perception of fame as harmful for relationships challenges the popular perceptions of fame as worth pursuing. Increased awareness of the interpersonal dynamics of fame can help individuals in managing the fame-related tensions in close interpersonal relationships, which are known as vital for well-being. The research adds to the understanding of the relational production of fame and introduces the interpersonal communication perspective on celebrity studies.

Katariina Kakko

Pekka Isotalus

Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships

名人的人际动力学：商业音乐艺术家浪漫关系中的名人话语

In 2021, three documentary series revitalised the unsolved murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996 in West Cork, Ireland, for a global audience of true crime enthusiasts. This article analyses the podcast West Cork (Audible 2018/iTunes 2021) and two streaming series, Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie (Sky Crime 2021) and Sophie: A Murder in West Cork (Netflix 2021) and argues that they conferred documentary celebrity on their central figures, Sophie Toscan du Plantier and Ian Bailey. The celebritisation of these individuals as victim and villain, was achieved through the development of a convergent narrative across the three series, one salted with the plot twists, end-of-episode cliff hangers, emotional confrontations and supernatural speculation familiar to viewers of true crime, reality television and serial drama.Moreover, the gendered discourse deployed by these documentaries posthumously transformed Sophie Toscan du Plantier into a world-famous victim while providing an opportunity for Ian Bailey, who remains the prime suspect, to self-brand as a Gothic villain. Bailey’s 2022 announcement that he would launch a podcast and television series and his self-promotional activity on TikTok confirm the cultural capital associated with documentary celebrity, even, or especially, for the infamous.

Maria Pramaggiore

Páraic Kerrigan

Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)

血腥谋杀直播：纪录片名人效应与苏菲·托斯卡·杜·普兰捷周年媒体（SAM）

A myriad of investigations has examined the life and works of Elvis Presley from music, entertainment, and cultural perspectives. There is little doubt about his remarkable longevity and marketability. Yet, surprisingly, there has been little scholarly work attempting to explain the entertainer's impact on a global scale, specifically from a branding perspective. Drawing from the emerging stream of research on necro-marketing, we introduce the novel concept of 'necro-branding' and associated, 'necro-celebrity', into the literature. We develop insights into consumer comments of 13,000 Elvis Presley YouTube videos via sentiment and lexical analyses. Key themes emerging from that investigation provide insights into that new concept of necro-branding. In particular, religion, musical talent, American culture, ceremonial and ritualistic elements, affect capturing, and mystical aura 'the eternal' resulted from our analysis. While these themes relate specifically to Elvis Presley, we argue, they would also be directly applicable to other famous dead celebrities, or as we now coin the term, necro-celebrities. Finally, theory stemming from our analysis presents a framework to explain a fan and other stakeholders (Elvis Presley Enterprises EPE, family, impersonators, festival organisers, Graceland) co-created Elvis brand that may have equal applicability to other necro-celebrities, just with different context.

Chris Baumann

Julian Knowles

Andrew R. Timming

David P. Price

Wirawan Dony Dahana

Yun Shen

Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity

死灵品牌化：埃尔维斯·普雷斯利作为死灵名人

This article explores the transnational Chinese female stardom in the wake of the changing Sino-Hollywood relations in the 2010s, taking Jing Tian, the Chinese star who plays the female lead in the Sino-Hollywood coproduction The Great Wall (2016), as an illustrative case. It rejects the popular narrative which presents Jing's failure to attain stardom in Hollywood as her own lack and an individual incident. Rather, it investigates the ways in which the systemic forces in Hollywood and the negotiations between the Chinese film industry and Hollywood in relation to gender, race, and (trans)nationalism may hold at bay her attempt to establish stardom in Hollywood. It examines Jing's character and her industrial positioning through the lens of postfeminism and intersectionality. It argues that first, her persona as a 'sinicised' postfeminist girl hero suggests a failed negotiation between China and Hollywood, and second, her intersectional identities in the Hollywood industry place her at a disadvantage in this Sino-Hollywood collaboration. By deconstructing Jing's failure, this article also unravels how Chinese stars were used in a disposable way by Hollywood when the box office performance of the Chinese market remained strong in the 2010s.

Yixuan Feng

Caught between China and Hollywood: the transnational journey of Jing Tian in <i>The Great Wall</i> (2016)

夹在中国与好莱坞之间：景甜在《长城》（2016）中的跨国之旅

短名	Celebr. Stud.
Journal Impact	0.45
国际分区	CULTURAL STUDIES(Q3)
期刊索引	SCI Q2中科院 3 区

ISSN	1939-2397, 1939-2400
h-index	29
国内分区	社会学(3区)社会学文化研究(3区)

涉及主题	艺术社会学媒体研究视觉艺术政治学法学哲学历史计算机科学业务广告心理学艺术史物理美学文学类生物政治语言学
出版信息	出版商: Routledge，出版周期: ，期刊类型: journal，开源期刊: 否
基本数据	创刊年份: 2010，原创研究文献占比: 100.00%，自引率:16.70%， Gold OA占比: 25.98%

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The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal

No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China

Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy

Interpersonal dynamics of fame: celebrity discourses in commercial music artist’s romantic relationships

Streaming bloody murder: documentary celebrity and Sophie Toscan Du Plantier anniversary media (SAM)

The discursive construction of celebrity governance with popular consent: Zheng Shuang’s surrogacy scandal

No more queer, but an artist of ‘positive energy’: remembering Leslie Cheung in mainland China

Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: the Zhehan Zhang controversy

Necro-branding: Elvis Presley as a necro-celebrity

Caught between China and Hollywood: the transnational journey of Jing Tian in The Great Wall (2016)