ABSTRACT
Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies, as well as those interested in digital culture more widely.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |6 pages
Part I ‘TV must train its own stars’: The invention of the television personality
part |6 pages
PART II ‘Oooh, I’m an entertainer ... it’s what I do’: Political economy, performance and pleasure
part |6 pages
Part III The television personality system revisited: Ordinariness and DIY fame