Russell Brand : comedy, celebrity, politics / Jane Arthurs, Ben Little.
'This is a fantastically exciting book, one which both forensically interrogates the cultural significance of Brand as a comedian but which also places him at the heart of a much bigger intellectual narrative about comic celebrity and its increasing impact on contemporary British politics.'...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in comedy.
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Table of Contents:
- Russell Brand; Endorsements; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Situating Russell Brand; Taste, Legitimacy and Power within Social Fields; Hybrid Media Celebrity; Stand-up Comedian; Television Presenter; Hollywood Stardom; Political Journalist; YouTube Celebrity; From Celebrity Apparatus to Political Assemblage; The Apparatus-Assemblage Relationship; Notes; 2 Stand-up Comedy; Brand's Position in the Field of Comedy; Brand's 'Signature Practices' as a (Live) Comic Performer; Stand-up as Ritual; The Body and Its Desires; Language and Wit.
- Storytelling as TherapyMessiah Complex; Conclusion; 3 Hybrid Media Celebrity; Digital Innovation, Performance and Identity; Dynamics of Reputation Management; Sachsgate; Hollywood Stardom; Interventions in Political Journalism; Campaigning Documentaries; Newsnight; Hybridising Comedy and Politics; The Trews; Conclusion; 4 From Celebrity Apparatus to Political Assemblage; Buy Love Here: Celebrity Apparatus = Celebrity Assemblage; Jeremy Paxman and the New Statesman Issue: Recalibrating the Celebrity Apparatus; Brand and London Grass-roots Housing Campaigns.
- The First Articulation: Reconfiguring the Celebrity BrandThe Second Articulation: Embracing Tactics of Protest; The Activist Assemblage; The Milibrand Assemblage; The Milibrand Interview; A Celebrity-Labour Apparatus?; The Impact of the Milibrand Assemblage; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Theatrical Performances; Television Programmes; Radio Programmes; DVDs; Online Channels; Recorded Songs; Index.