Coppola's postfeminism: Emma Watson and The Bling Ring

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Siân Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Celebrity Culture

Abstract Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring explores the contemporary obsession with commodities and celebrity culture which leads a group of Californian teenagers to break into the homes of celebrities, in order to steal their clothes and accessories. This article examines Coppola's critique of celebrity culture and consumerism through the movie itself, and through her casting of British actor Emma Watson and the ways in which she mobilizes the celebrity persona of Watson in order to further her critique. The Bling Ring will be compared to Coppola's work to understand how it contributes to her postfeminist image. Coppola's position as a celebrity figure through her association with her father, through her own work and through her participation within the worlds of fashion and music are also explored, in order to problematize the position from which she critiques celebrity culture.

Celebrity Culture and the Problem of Biography

2014 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Roach
Keyword(s):  
Celebrity Culture

The Personal Public Sphere of Whitman's 1840s Journalism

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 983-998
Author(s):  
Bonnie Carr O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Leaves Of Grass ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Penny Press ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The Public Sphere

Before Walt Whitman became the self-celebrating poet of Leaves of Grass, he was a professional journalist. This paper examines the journalism Whitman produced from 1840 to 1842 in the context of an emerging celebrity culture, and it considers celebrity's effects on the public sphere. It traces the penny press's personal style of journalism to both its artisan-republican politics and the formation of celebrity culture, in which celebrities assume status parallel to that of traditional representatives of authority. As editor of the Aurora, Whitman adopts the first-person, polemical style of the penny press and singles out prominent people for criticism. In other pieces, he presents himself as the ever-observant flâneur. As editor and as flâneur, he is a participant in and observer of the life of his community, and he assumes unassailable interpretive power. But he also regards his readers as fellow participants-observers who make judgments about the public figures he reports on. The tension between these positions is never resolved: Whitman's dialogic addresses to readers aim to extend the public sphere of critical debate even as Whitman holds steadfastly to his own social and political authority. Encouraging and modeling readers' negotiations over the meaning of public figures, he extends the features of celebrity culture to the public at large. His early journalism shows how and why it is so difficult to reconcile political and social community in the era of mass culture, and it highlights the complexities of the coexistence of celebrity and critical discourse in the personal public sphere.

Brady and Hindley: Serial Killers and Celebrity Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-114
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins ◽  
Marian Foley ◽  
Martin King
Keyword(s):  
Serial Killers ◽  
Celebrity Culture

Measurement and correlates of celebrity culture hate.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Shabahang ◽  
Mara S. Aruguete ◽  
Ho Phi Huynh ◽  
Hyejin Shim
Keyword(s):  
Celebrity Culture
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