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Gothic Celebrity : Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fletcher, Harriet, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Gothic revival (Art).
- Celebrities.
- Immortality in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how together they expose society's responses to ageing and death.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Gothic Celebrity
- 2016: The year of celebrity death
- Gothic celebrity
- Mortality and immortality
- The celebrity in modern culture
- Gothic celebrities: Lord Byron to Lady Gaga
- 1 The Origins of Gothic Celebrity: Lord Byron, John Polidori and the Celebrity Vampire
- Lord Byron's rise to fame and the Romantic cult of personality
- Byromania and the desire for intimacy
- The celebrity vampire and the Gothic
- Byromaniacs: Readers as fans
- Fan fiction and fantasies of intimacy
- Vampiric portraits
- Conclusion
- 2 Unstable Immortality: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Victorian Celebrity Photography
- Oscar Wilde and visual celebrity
- The photograph and the Gothic
- Gothic doubles: The photographer and the subject in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Dorian's portrait: A harbinger of celebrity decay
- Technological immortality: Embodying the carte de visite
- Confronting decay: Sibyl, the actress and the theatre
- 3 Faded Stars: The Gothic Performance of Ageing in Sunset Boulevard and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- The female star and the faded star
- The Gothic faded star: Ageing and abjection
- The dance of the seven veils: Abject striptease in Sunset Boulevard
- Child star to faded star: The collision of age and youth in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Deathly doubles: The Baby Jane doll
- 4 The Death of the Star: Celebrity Decay in Andy Warhol's Gothic Portraits
- Death and disaster: Celebrity in the 1960s
- Andy Warhol, the portrait and the Gothic
- Marilyn Diptych: The deathliness of mechanical reproduction
- The decay of the star
- Self-Portrait: A celebrity death mask
- Gothic props: The wig as memento mori
- Conclusion.
- 5 Transcendent Transformations: Lady Gaga's Reinventive Vampirism in American Horror Story: Hotel
- Lady Gaga, reinvention and celebrity in the digital age
- Lady Gaga, the tabloids and celebrity decay
- The reinventive vampire
- The corset and vampiric transformation
- Viral Red
- Vampiric red
- Disco red
- Vampiric veils: Contagion and transcendence
- Conclusion: Reclaiming Decay
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-44753-6
- 1-350-44755-2
- 1-350-44754-4
- OCLC:
- 1520506358
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