In the mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the celebrity legitimizes her image while also propagating her brand by redefining fame as an accumulation of skills.
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Kollecting Kim K. Skills: Kardashianized Celebrity in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Imported by Justin Bieber: Carly Rae Jepsen and Transnational Stardom
Carly Rae Jepsen's Justin Bieber-supported breakthrough offers a case study for how difficult it is for stardom to remain transnational when moving into the U.S. market.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 30-Nov 12
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Throat Buckles and Nerd Glasses: Performance of White Hipster Celebrity Drag
Mediated drag images are often foregrounded, particularly as contemporary scholarship posits how reality television and music video challenge disseminated images of drag through parody and confrontational disregard for societal convention. Until recently, such representations were limited to television, film, and music video. But several drag artists have developed huge followings based on their online...
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