Reluctant Celebrity Affect and Privilege in Contemporary Stardom /

• Main Author: York, Lorraine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; Motion pictures and television.; Theater.; Actors.; Popular Culture .; Screen Studies.; Performers and Practitioners.

In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the "affective turn in cultural studies", York studies the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: "Treasonous Drift: Celebrity Reluctance as Privilege"
• 2. Inviting the Shadow to the Party: John Cusack and the Politics of Reluctance
• 3. Robert De Niro's (In)articulate Reluctance
• 4. "I'm Not Going to Be the Poster Boy for This. Although I am the Poster Boy": Daniel Craig's Reluctant Bonding
• 5. Conclusion: Reluctance's Other.