Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-238) and index.
Contents:
Six degrees of subjectification: theorizing and practicing metonymy -- American queerer: Norman Rockwell and the art of queer feminist critique -- Interstitial 1: A chapter on AIDS -- Terms and conditions: reflections on and of Black fame in the case of Will Smith -- Interstitial 2: The eyes have had it -- Emotional icons: digital culture, networks of affect, and Kim Kardashian.
Summary:
"Analyzes the public images of Norman Rockwell, Will Smith, and Kim Kardashian across movie posters, magazines, cinema, and social media and deploys a rhetorical study of celebrity to challenge normative ideas about how we form selfhood, including conceptions of gender, race, and sexuality"-- Provided by publisher.
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