Skin, celebrity and online media : affect and humour on gossip blogs

This thesis investigates the affective and embodied ways in which representations of celebrity on gossip blogs generate ideas about femininity, queerness and whiteness. To date, celebrity studies has largely focused on how celebrity representations shape cultural ideas about proper and improper form...

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Main Author: Graefer, Anne
Published: University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.618224