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Oral presentations, alphabetised by first name

 

T.S. Eliot: Modernism, Obituary and Celebrity.
Aaron Jaffe
University of Louisville, USA.
 
From Hollywood to 'heat': J.Lo and Synergy
Alan Dodd
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
 
Celebrity, Banal Nationalism and the Power Elite
Alex Law
Division of Sociology, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, UK
 
'You Can Blame the Editing, But You're Still a Bitch': The Search for the Authentic Self in Reality TV Celebrity
Amber Watts
Radio-Television-Film at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois,USA.
 
Black Power, Hip-Hop and Identity: The appeal of Tupac Shakur to oppressed people's struggles.
Amir Saeed
Centre for Research in Media & Cultural Studies,
University of Sunderland, UK
 
Celebrity Politicians and the Politics in Celebrity
Andrew Calcutt
University of East London, UK.
 
Governing the Simulation State: Social Implosion and the Politicization of 1970s Hollywood
Andrew Schroeder
Department of Communications
Radio-TV-Film Program
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, USA
 
Boris Johnson, performance and non-communication in mediated scandals.
Andy Ruddock
Media and Cultural Studies
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
 
Contemporary Stardom as a derivative money form.
Barry King
School of Communications
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
 
The King of Pop v The King of Rock: on sexuality and race in the mediation of the shamanic in Jackson and Presley
C. Jason Lee
School of Culture, Media and Environment at St Martin's Lancaster, UK
 
I'm Not Spartacus: Michael Douglas as an Icon of Cuckolded White Masculinity.
Candida Yates
University of East London, UK
 
'Father, why hast thou forsaken me?' Postmodernism, desire and dissatisfaction. A case study of David Beckham's 'meaning'
Carlton Brick
University of Paisley, Scotland, UK
 
The Ethics Of Sports Celebrities: Role Models Or Ruffians?
Cheryl Weiss
University of Idaho, USA
 
Celebrity Agendas in News
Claire Simmons
Broadcast Journalism Field, University Of Gloucestershire, UK
 
Who Is Carmelo Anthony? Managing and Marketing Embodied Blackness in Late Capitalist America
David L. Andrews & Michael L. Silk
Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, USA
 
Postfeminism, The Missing Woman and the Culture of Celebrity: Tracking the 'Runaway Bride'
Diane Negra
Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia, UK
 
Empathetic Relations: What does the Audience Consumption of Stars tell Analysts about the Nature of Suspending Disbelief.
E Anna Claydon
English Dept, Edge Hill College, UK
 
Buying Beyonce: The deal that ended racism
Ellis Cashmore
Staffordshire University, UK
 
The Spanish Royal Family: Stories Versus History
Fernando León Solís
University of Paisley, UK
 
News, Celebrity and the Jackson verdict: a vortextual analysis
Garry Whannel
University of Luton, UK
 
Through the Media Lens: The Fall and Rise and Fall of the Hero and the Rise of the Celebrity
Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker
Queens College, City University of New York and Hofstra University, USA
 
The Strange Case of the Government Plot to Murder Robert Burns
Gerard Carruthers
University of Glasgow, UK
 
Postfeminist fatherhood and the paternalization of the Eddie Murphy star image.
Hannah Hamad
University of East Anglia, UK.
 
The Articulation of Musical Star Personae in High Society (1956)
Ian Garwood
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies,
University of Glasgow, UK
 
Living with fame: the television documentary and the pop star
Ian Goode,
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies,
University of Glasgow, UK
 
Celebrity Culture, Consumerism, and Black Girls. A womanist perspective on negotiating Sex And The City.
Jaye Williamson
Faculty of the Arts, Music and Design. Thames Valley University, UK
 
Queer Lives and Videotape: The Posthumous Screen Celebrity of Brandon Teena, Matthew Shepard and Aileen Wuornos
Jenny Alexander
Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex, UK
 
Affective audiences Fan mail and media publicity in the case of a Finnish TV-host
Kaarina Nikunen
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland
 
Trial by Media
Kate Smith
University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, UK
 
The Not So 'Powerless Elite': The effectiveness of celebrity endorsements of political candidates
Kelli E. Lammie
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania, USA
 
When Good Friends Say Goodbye: A Parasocial Breakup Study
Keren Eyal & Jonathan Cohen
Department of Communication
University of Arizona and Department of Communication University of Haifa, USA.
 
Publicising Private Lives: Celebrities and Image Control
Kim McNamara
Media Studies
The University of Sydney, Australia
 
'Choosing Fame - Choosing a Self': Celebrity Culture, Performing Arts Pedagogy and Female Individualisation
Kimberley Allen
Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
 
Celebrity News Anchors and the Journalistic Community
Kimberly Meltzer
The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA
 
I'm A Celebrity, Analyse Me! : The Appeal of Celebrity Reality Television
Kirsty Fairclough
Media and Performance, University of Salford, UK
 
Constructions of national identity, gender hierarchy and social order in media representations of royalties
Kristina Widestedt
Department of Journalism and Media Studies (JMK), Stockholm University, Sweden
 
Photo Models Go West - International Photo models as local celebrities in 1960's Finland
Laura Saarenmaa
Media Culture, University of Tampere, Finland
 
Movies, Modelling and Bikinis: Celebrity and Flexible Accumulation
Lee Barron,
Northumbria University, UK.
 
Have You Seen? Photography, Celebrity and Gossip
Linda Marchant
Photography, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
 
The Pragmatics of Fame: Visibility, Public Memory & Celine Dion
Line Grenier
Departement de communication
Universite de Montreal, Canada.
 
MTV's Cribs: Examining the Celebrity Culture of Male Athletes in the United States
Maureen Smith* & Becky Beal**
*California State University, Sacramento ,**University of the Pacific, USA
 
The public inquisitor as media celebrity
Michael Higgins, Centre for Research in Media & Cultural Studies
University of Sunderland, UK
 
Celebrity, Cause and Company: Understanding the Mediating Effect of the Celebrity in Cause Related Marketing
Michael L. Maynard & Suman Mishra
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
 
Kate Moss-Supermodel or Superbrand?
Michelle Gledhill
Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK.
 
David Beckham, Iconicity and the Modern Male Heroic
Mick Jardine
School of Cultural Studies, University College Winchester, UK.
 
Beckham: How 'Queer' serves 'Heterotopia' in the dialectics of celebrity.
Momin Rahman
Sociology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
 
Celebrity and the War on Terror
Nathan Farrell
London South Bank University, UK.
 
Speaking of Diana's Assassination: the Myth, the Inquiry and the Media
Neil Blain
University of Paisley, UK
 
Talking to Bowie Fans: Individualisation, Gender and the Culture Industry
Nick Stevenson
University of Nottingham, UK
 
Celebrating Imperfection: sport, disability and celebrity culture
P. David Howe* and Andrew Parker**
*University of Brighton, UK
** University of Warwick, UK
 
The Changing Indiscretions of the Public Personality:
New Media, Celebrity and Intellectual Property
P. David Marshall
Northeastern University, Boston, USA
 
Celebrity and Surveillance: How We Came to Embrace Observation
Patricia Bradley
School of Communications and Theater, Temple University, USA
 
Celebrity Entertainment Officer: On the Fame of Media Moguls and the Show of Business
Paul McDonald
Roehampton University, UK
 
From Disney to Dirrty: Christina Aguilera and The Representation of Gendered Ethnicity
Paul Watson and Diane Railton
School of Arts and Media
University of Teesside, UK
 
The Starnet: Changing Discourses of Popular Music Stardom
Hannu Salmi*, Kari Kallioniemi*, Kimi Kärki*, Janne Mäkelä**
*University of Turku, Finland, **University of Helsinki, Finland.
 
Reading Heat
Rebecca Feasey
Department of Media Communications and Cultural Studies, Bath Spa University College, UK
 
'Remember, You Are Jennifer Lopez and You Are Ja'Rule' Trying on Identity, Authenticity and Celebrity in Much Music's Becoming
Rebecca Morrison
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
 
'Age and Sexuality in Celebrity Culture:
The Case of Helen Mirren (57)'
Sadie Wearing
Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
 
The Mechanics of Renown: Celebrity Culture in the 19th Century.
Sara Babcox First
Department of History, University of Michigan, USA
 
'Sometimes you wanna hate celebrities: Tabloid readers and celebrity coverage
Sofia Johansson
University of Westminster, UK.
 
Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery: This is Your Life (1955-65)
Su Holmes
Film Studies, University of Kent, UK
 
'From Salad Dressings all Blessings Flow': Cultural Economy, Activism, and the Celebrity Capital of Newman's Own
Sue Collins
Department of Culture & Communication
New York University, USA
 
A Ragbag of Rights
Susan Fletcher
University of Central Lancashire, UK.
 
'As Seen on TV': Celebrity as Lifestyle Advisor
Sylvie Prasad & Helen Powell,
University of East London
 
David Byrne's understanding of mass media mythology.
Sytze Steenstra
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Culture, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
 
Ten Years After: OJ Simpson, Celebrity Trials, And The Construction Of Crime News
Thomas Grochowski
Department of English, Seton Hall University, USA
 
The 'Matinee Idol' and the 'False Beard' - The Problem of Acting for British Stars.
Victoria Lowe
University of Manchester, UK.
 
Aesthetic Communication and Representation in Celebrity Culture: A Sociopragmatic and Critical Approach to Popular Musical Discourse
Vincent Tao-hsun Chang,
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan
 
'Alien from our Neighborhood' - Celebrities in the New Consumer Societies
Wieslaw Godzic
Warsaw School of Social Psychology
Institute for Communication and Culture, Poland.
 
VCD Killed the Film Star: The Case of Hong Kong Cinema
Wing-Fai Leung
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London, UK

 
 

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