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Celebrity Studies is a journal that focuses on the critical exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense of celebrity by drawing upon a range of (inter)disciplinary approaches, media forms, historical periods and national contexts. Celebrity Studies aims to address key issues in the production, circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both contemporary and historical contexts, while functioning as a key site for academic debate about the enterprise of celebrity studies itself. Alongside the primary articles, the journal will include a 'blog' section devoted to shorter observations, debates or issues in celebrity culture, in conjunction with book reviews and conference reports.

Celebrity Studies - Forum Section

This is a general call for papers for Celebrity Forum. We're looking for timely, provocative and open-ended short pieces on current topics in celebrity studies. Recent or forthcoming events and issues in the world of celebrity that we would welcome submissions on include:

• The Royal Wedding: Prince William and Kate Middleton
• The Ashes: Reflections on the celebrity of players, ex-players or the place of celebrity in post-colonial rivalries
• Celebrity & Austerity: adapting conspicuous consumption for the downturn
• Spies like us: Celebrity and the Russian spy scandal
• The Oprah Winfrey Network: Launching a networked celebrity brand
• Celebrity families/mothers: the Beckhams, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr, Nicole Kidman, Jamie Oliver etc.

Celebrity Forum is a section of Celebrity Studies that provides a space for timely responses to contemporary and historical issues in celebrity culture. We encourage submissions in two forms: 1,000-1,500 words (including notes) "think pieces", including case studies, which should be provocative and open-ended, encouraging exchange and debate. Alternatively, we invite 500-1,000 word (including notes) submissions of comments and views on previous articles published within either the main section of the journal or Celebrity Forum. Above all, Celebrity Forum is designed to be dialogical and primarily engaged with cutting edge developments in celebrity and its study.