The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new research which explores a range of audience encounters with celebrities, moving across social media, royal weddings, national identity to questions of age, gender and class. In doing so, the essays illuminate the complex and negotiated nature of audience investments in celebrity culture, collectively questioning the often simplistic and dismissive judgements that are made about audience/ celebrity relationships in this regard. The book provides a dedicated space to showcase a range of current work in the field, seeking to both consolidate and stimulate what is a vibrant and crucial aspect of studying celebrity culture.

The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new research which explores a range of audience encounters with celebrities, moving across social media, royal weddings, national identity to questions of age, gender and class. In doing so, the essays illuminate the complex and negotiated nature of audience investments in celebrity culture, collectively questioning the often simplistic and dismissive judgements that are made about audience/ celebrity relationships in this regard. The book provides a dedicated space to showcase a range of current work in the field, seeking to both consolidate and stimulate what is a vibrant and crucial aspect of studying celebrity culture.

This study examines feasting and consumption as indicators of social complexity in the Later Iron Age, a time of rapid change in settlements, material culture and social and political organisation. In doing so Sarah Ralph re-evaluates old sites and analyses newer ones, identifying features which denote feasting, and going on to discuss when and why feasts occured, who organised and attended them and how they changed over time. Light is shed on life and time cycles and on feasting as a response to political change, and there are important observations about the growing numbers of Roman items in the material culture of later Iron Age East Anglia. Appendices contain maps and a catalogue of all of the sites which can be associarted with feasting.