Stealing fame: lifestyle celebrity and the dubious cultural politics of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring |
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Authors: | Joshua N Morrison |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA morr1512@umn.edu joshua.en.morrison@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-7739 |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT In this essay, I theorize the lifestyle celebrity as a figure whose fame is premised on their aspirational status. I offer lifestyle celebrity as a complementary analytic to ordinary celebrity that allows for more precise distinction between celebrity figures. I engage Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring as a film that positions the desire for lifestyle celebrity as dangerous and irresponsible. I argue that the film places the burden of maintaining a “healthy” relationship with celebrity culture entirely on consumer-participants and affirms the class and gender performance hierarchies that structure the valuation and distribution of lifestyle celebrity. |
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Keywords: | celebrity self-branding lifestyle media fame postfeminism |
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