The Frenzy of Renown: Fame &amp; Its History

Braudy, Leo

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“…Faber's approach explores a number of factors that shaped fame in the ancient world, including the growth of cosmopolitan cities and the role of public assemblies, law courts, and other group events, social status, access to information dissemination, and strategic self-presentation. This list would not be complete of mentioning the seminal work of Leo Braudy (1986), who traced the idea of fame throughout European history, starting with the ancient era, albeit without using the concept of celebrity at that time.…”

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“…Historians have taken some time to recognise that fame has a history of its own. Although the first works exploring the history of fame emerged as early as the 1980s (Braudy, 1986), its broader acceptance within the scholarly mainstream was hindered as the scholarly discourse centred around the concept of celebrity (Mole, 2007; Wanko, 2003). The term carried a pejorative connotation and appeared to be tethered to contemporary times.…”

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History of celebrity branching out

Wesołowski

2023

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This article provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of celebrity history. While there was once a debate surrounding the application of the concept of celebrity to the past, historians have recently recognised the importance of exploring transient fame and social distinction, solidifying this line of inquiry. However, our understanding of historical celebrity has since evolved, involving new themes, time periods, and geographical contexts, which has led to a diverse range of approaches and perspectives. By examining how historians have explored the topic in recent years, this article identifies the strengths and limitations of different approaches, offering a fresh and updated understanding of the complexities of studying the role of fame throughout history.

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History of celebrity branching out

Wesołowski

2023

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“…One of the unforeseen outcomes of the narration of the crisis was that many of Canada's public health officers became national celebrities. Noteworthy about the elevated status (and influence) of public health officers in a celebrity culture that is otherwise marked by parody, pastiche and inauthenticity is that it signalled a momentary relapse to early 20th-century patterns of celibrification based on charisma and personal talent (Braudy, 1986). Patterns of celebritization were most clearly on display in the province of British Columbia.…”

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Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada

Hier

2021

Current Sociology

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This article theorizes some of the ways that the COVID-19 health crisis was publicly narrated and morally regulated in Canada. Beginning with Valverde’s theory of moral capital, public health crisis communication is conceptualized as dialectical claims-making activities aimed at maximizing the individual moral capital of citizens and the aggregate moral capital of nations. Valverde’s historical sociology explains how moral capital operated in relation to economic capital accumulation in the context of 19th-century moral regulation of the urban poor. This article applies aspects of Valverde’s historical framework about mixed economies of regulation to contemporary biopolitical moralization in the midst of a pandemic. It does so by arguing that responsibilizing citizens to flatten the epidemic curve of the disease contributed to the social construction of a normative pandemic subject. In this way, the analysis provides insights into how public health crisis communication explicitly intended to mitigate COVID-19 infection rates both reflected and reinforced the conjunctural norms associated with neoliberal governmentality.

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“…Emerging media technologies helped produce new industries of publicity and “show” business in which image management became a professional pursuit and the film industry its greatest practitioners (Braudy 1997; Davis 1993; Gamson 2007; Powdermaker 2013; Thorp 1939). While there are many iterations of fame and infamy, glamour is employed as a strategy for a particular idealized type intended to entice and delight.…”

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Glamorous Work: Notes from the Red Carpet

Mitchell¹

2021

Visual Anthropology Review

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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) attracts filmmakers and film audiences from around the world each year. In this article, I take an ethnographic approach to understand the way film festival organizers bring groups together and act as intermediaries in negotiating the value of particular films and cinema. I argue that film festival organizers engage in glamorous work—a strategy that employs visual cues and artful mediation to cultivate a sense of the extraordinary while obscuring the risky nature of film festival organization. This article considers the risks involved in film festival organization and the way glamorous work attempts to alleviate these risks.

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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame & Its History

Cited by 14 publications

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History of celebrity branching out

History of celebrity branching out

Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada

Glamorous Work: Notes from the Red Carpet

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