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Huge Stars: Corpulence, Celebrity, and Convergence in Twenty-First Century American Media Culture
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Huge Stars: Corpulence, Celebrity, and Convergence in Twenty-First Century American Media Culture
Yazar:
Jones, Jennifer Lynn, author.
ISBN:
9780438121799
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1 electronic resource (192 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Joan C. Hawkins; Brenda R. Weber Committee members: Elizabeth Ellcessor; Susan Lepselter.
Özet:
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, American culture has been consumed by corpulence, a remarkable preoccupation even in the lengthy history of American obsessions with body size. This period marks what many have called an "obesity crisis," a global moral panic over the meanings of increasing weights. Pathologization of size may be the most common approach to this phenomenon, but the saturation of the issue throughout American culture in particular has worked ambivalently, creating responses that complicate and challenge the meanings of size framed through this crisis. Among those caught in the vicissitudes of this crisis are screen performers whose corpulence has often hindered their success in Hollywood. With the increasing interest in issues of size and the development of related markets, these performers have found new opportunities to further their careers through the niches in media and commodities created by this crisis. As such, the development of their celebrity has also been marked by convergence, which has helped to amplify their presence not only in Hollywood but also American culture. This work thus examines the careers of three Hollywood performers---Kirstie Alley, Retta, and Lena Dunham---whose celebrity has evolved in important ways over this period in relationship to their size and through aspects of convergence. Through these case studies this dissertation argues that the obsessions of the obesity crisis in the United States since the early twenty-first century have helped to cultivate celebrity through convergence for performers whose corpulence has often been a deterrent to careers in Hollywood.
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School code: 0093
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