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Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection
that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated
and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters
address a variety of cultural venues--politics, sports, film, and
literature--and examine the political, cultural, material, and
affective conditions that shaped celebrity in Canada and its uses
both at home and abroad. The scope of the book enables the authors
to highlight the trends that characterize Canadian celebrity--such
as transnationality and bureaucracy--and explore the regional,
linguistic, administrative, and indigenous cultures and
institutions that distinguish fame in Canada from fame elsewhere.
In historicizing and theorizing Canada's complicated cultures of
celebrity, Celebrity Cultures in Canada rejects the argument that
nations are irrelevant in today's global celebrityscapes or that
Canada lacks a credible or adequate system for producing,
distributing, and consuming celebrity. Nation and national
identities continue to matter--to celebrities, to fans, and to
institutions and industries that manage and profit from celebrity
systems--and Canada, this collection argues, has a vibrant,
powerful, and often complicated and controversial relationship to
fame.
If the twentieth century has been dominated by discussions of the
public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics
argues that, in the twenty-first century, we must complicate the
singularity of that paradigm and start thinking of our world in
terms of multiple, overlapping, and competing publics. In three
distinct streams-art, media and technology, and the intimate
life-this volume offers up the intellectual and political
significance of thinking through the plurality of our publics.
"Countering Neoliberal Publics: Screen and Space," explores how
different artistic practices articulate the challenges and desires
of multiple publics. "Making and Shaping Publics: Discourse and
Technology" showcases how media shape publics, and how new and
emerging publics use these technologies to construct identities.
"Commodifying Public Intimacies" examines what happens to the
notion of the private when intimacies structure publics, move into
public spaces, and develop value that can be exchanged and
circulated.
At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management.
Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as
a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee
examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L. M.
Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret
Trudeau, and Shania Twain to trace the rise of celebrity
autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise
to fame and in writing about that experience.Arguing that the
celebrity autobiography is always negotiating historically specific
conditions, Lee charts a history of celebrity in English Canada and
the conditions that shape the way women access and experience fame.
These contexts shed light on the stories women tell about their
lives and the public images they cultivate in their
autobiographies. As strategies of self-representation change and
the pressure to represent the private life escalates, the celebrity
autobiography undergoes distinct shifts - in form, function, and
content - during the period examined in this study. Limelight:
Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography is the first
book to explore the history and development of the celebrity
autobiography and offers compelling evidence of the critical role
of gender and nation in the way fame is experienced and
represented.
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