Celebrity Mental Health: Intimacy, Ordinariness, and Repeated Self-Transformation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Celebrity Mental Health: Intimacy, Ordinariness, and Repeated Self-Transformation

Published:2022-10-23 Issue: Volume: Page:103-155
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Container-title:21st Century Media and Female Mental Health
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Thelandersson Fredrika

Abstract

AbstractCelebrities are an important part of the pop cultural landscape and the ways they approach mental health function as models for how to think about such issues in culture at large. This chapter explores how mental illness has been talked about in celebrity discourse during the 2010s. I delineate the shift in celebrity media from outside speculation about what ailments a star might suffer from to a climate where celebrities themselves speak firsthand about their painful experiences. Part of this was a changing media landscape broaching increasingly intimate topics as authenticity has become one of the most valued aspects of celebrity branding. The primary focus is on the celebrity health narratives of Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, but I also discuss Lana del Rey, Britney Spears, and the spate of “trainwreck”- celebrity coverage of 2007-2008. The analysis of these health narratives shows how a profitable vulnerability and supportive conversations around mental distress exist in tension with each other in the world of celebrity media.

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Springer International Publishing

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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-16756-0_4

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