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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. .

Celebrities --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Fame --- Film actors --- Film stars --- Motion picture stars --- Movie stars --- Moving-picture actors and actresses --- Stars, Movie --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Social aspects. --- Popular Culture. --- Motion pictures and television. --- Theater. --- Actors. --- Popular Culture . --- Screen Studies. --- Performers and Practitioners. --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Moving-pictures and television --- Television and motion pictures --- Television --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture

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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. .

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Canadian literature --- Literature and photography --- Littérature canadienne --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Findley, Timothy --- Laurence, Margaret --- Munro, Alice --- Ondaatje, Michael, --- Criticism and interpretation --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- 82:7 --- 820 <71> --- Literatuur en kunst --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 82:7 Literatuur en kunst --- Littérature canadienne --- Photography and literature --- Photography --- Munro, Alice, --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Laurence, Jean Margaret --- Wemys, Jean Margaret --- Findli, Timoti --- Финдли, Тимоти --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw, --- Laurence, Margaret, --- Findley, Timothy, --- Findley, Timothy Irving, --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael‏ --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael --- Wemyss, Jean Margaret

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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism. These essays offer us an Alice Munro who is not the kindly Canadian icon reinforcing small-town verities who was celebrated and perpetuated in acts of national pedagogy with her Nobel Prize win; they ponder, instead, an edgier, messier Munro whose fictions of affective and ethical perplexities disturb rather than comfort. In Munro’s fiction, unruly embodiments and affects interfere with normative identity and humanist conventions of the human based on reason and rationality, destabilizing prevailing gender and sexual politics, ethical responsibilities, and affective economies. As these essays make clear, Munro’s fiction reminds us of the consequences of everyday affects and the extraordinary ordinariness of the ethical encounters we engage again and again. .

Ethics in literature. --- Munro, Alice, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Literary Theory. --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures. --- Theory