TY - BOOK ID - 32076353 TI - Reluctant Celebrity : Affect and Privilege in Contemporary Stardom PY - 2018 SN - 3319711741 3319711733 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Celebrities KW - Motion picture actors and actresses KW - Fame KW - Film actors KW - Film stars KW - Motion picture stars KW - Movie stars KW - Moving-picture actors and actresses KW - Stars, Movie KW - Celebrity culture KW - Celebs KW - Cult of celebrity KW - Famous people KW - Famous persons KW - Illustrious people KW - Well-known people KW - Social aspects. KW - Popular Culture. KW - Motion pictures and television. KW - Theater. KW - Actors. KW - Popular Culture . KW - Screen Studies. KW - Performers and Practitioners. KW - Stage actors KW - Theater actors KW - Theatrical actors KW - Artists KW - Entertainers KW - Theater KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - Moving-pictures and television KW - Television and motion pictures KW - Television KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076353 AB - In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the “affective turn in cultural studies”, York studies the mixed affect of reluctance, as it is performed by public figures in the entertainment industries. Setting aside the question of whether these performances are offered “in good faith” or not, York theorizes reluctance as the affective meeting ground of seemingly opposite emotions: disinclination and inclination. The figures under study in this book are John Cusack, Robert De Niro, and Daniel Craig—three white, straight, cis-gendered-male cinematic stars who have persistently and publicly expressed a feeling of reluctance about their celebrity. York examines how the performance of reluctance, which is generally admired in celebrities, builds up cultural prestige that can then be turned to other purposes. . ER -