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Recent research finds that becoming too psychologically entangled with your followers can make success feel like a trap.
A late-19th century campaign spearheaded by Foster’s brother sought to elevate him into the pantheon of American cultural heroes, even as his sympathies tended to lie with the pro-slavery South.
The action star’s death forced fans to reckon with his strange legacy: a real person with a complicated past, and a meme that made him into an immortal symbol of exaggerated masculinity.
As the Musk v Trump feud steps up a level there are classic signs from a psychological point of view of why they are falling out.
It’s not unusual in the social media era for young people to become famous. But fame is complicated – especially when you’re still growing and forming your identity.
The singer’s home reflects the rags-to-riches trajectory that epitomizes the American Dream. Yet Presley and his estate were seen as not quite refined enough to reflect true upward mobility.
Fame for artists has become less about the individual and more about their place with the large commercial art world ecosystem.
While Sanders deftly played the game of Black respectability politics during his short tenure, Jackson State had motives of its own when it hired the former NFL star.
Today she is most recognised for roles in Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music, but Julie Andrews made her professional West End debut at the age of 12.
What do we love about seeing children perform? And how do their performances shape our understanding of childhood?
Presley never wrote a memoir. Nor did he keep a diary. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but he didn’t even write his songs.
Pronouncements made by the Chinese government often cloak a hidden agenda.
Unloading about trauma and mental illness is in vogue. But like undressing, it centers musicians’ vulnerabilities at the expense of their artistry.
Daft Punk’s anonymity was really a stroke of genius.
Over the past year, the singer has carefully constructed a visage that has made him nearly unrecognizable.
The return of actors like Karate Kid Ralph Macchio and Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter sees them older and wiser. Fewer role revivals remind us of character growth related to womanhood.
Just like in the days following 9/11, celebrities most successfully use their star power in the COVID-19 crisis when they appear to step out of the limelight, publicly praising first responders.
Movie director Joel Schumacher’s body of work is profound, and his influence on contemporary Hollywood cinema indelible.
Forty years since Fame showed the vulnerability of performing arts students, we can still do more to protect them. As we resume physical contact, we can use performance to renegotiate safe intimacy.
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Professor of History, Tennessee State University
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Fashion Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
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Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Associate Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Research Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Huddersfield
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Lecturer/Researcher, University of Education, Winneba
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Assistant Professor of Race and Media, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina
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Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Digital Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Film, Media and Communication, Deakin University
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Distinguished University Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Professor of Musicology, Dalhousie University
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Dean, Edith Cowan University