ABSTRACT
The celebrity sex tape permits the sexual identity of a celebrity to be viewed as transiently proximate, personal, explicit and experimental because of the way it is constructed through a combination of authentic and amateurish tropes. Both the original 1988 sex tape and Sex Tape the movie rely upon personal, amateur and mainstream texts and representations in which the private sex act and the public personality of the celebrity intersect. The celebrity sex tape is also something that actively strengthens and paradoxically undermines the structured star-systems associated with earlier forms of fame and the ideological assurance that a movie star acted identically in both their 'real' and 'reel' lives. In addition to the conventional celebrity sex tape, the rise of social networks and digital media has ensured both technological and representational shifts towards forms of celebrity and sexual revelation/scandal that are now fully mediated or remediated online.
