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Refashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics
  • ISSN: 2001-0818
  • E-ISSN: 2049-9531
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Abstract

Using celebrity narratives as a starting point, this Special Issue explores the social significance of storytelling for social change. It builds on the conference, which brought together scholars and media practitioners to explore how narratives inspired by the lives of celebrities, public intellectuals, critics and activists offer useful rhetorical tools to better understand dominant ideologies. This editorial further problematizes what it means to be a popular ‘storyteller’ using the critical lens of celebrity activism and life-writing. Throughout the issue, contributors analyse the politics of representation at play within a wide range of glamourous narratives, including documentaries, memoirs, TED talks, stand-up performances and award acceptance speeches in Hollywood and beyond. The studies show how we can strategically use aesthetic communication to shape identity politics in public personas and bring urgent social change in an image-driven celebrity culture.

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  • Article Type: Editorial
Keyword(s): celebrity activism; celebrity culture; life-writing; personal narrative; public intellectual; storytelling

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