CFP: The Star and Celebrity Confessional (2/1/07; journal issue)
CFP: The Star and Celebrity Confessional
Special Themed Issue Social Semiotics
Guest Editor: Sean Redmond
Social Semiotics (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10350330.asp) is
soliciting papers for a special themed issue on the star and celebrity
confessional. The confessional, taken to be any moment in which a star,
celebrity, or fan engages in revelatory acts, has become one of the dominant
ways in which fame is circulated and consumed.
The celebrity confessional involves Œthe combination of reflexivity about
the business of being a celebrity, emotional interiority and self