精神分析理论
论证(复杂分析)
模仿
社会学
透视图(图形)
关系(数据库)
大众文化
美学
粉丝
鉴定(生物学)
人格心理学
桥(图论)
功率(物理)
精神分析
认识论
媒体研究
心理学
社会心理学
艺术
哲学
人格
视觉艺术
计算机科学
医学
植物
生物
物理
内科学
数据库
量子力学
标识
DOI:10.1177/1749975510391583
摘要
This article critically examines the power of celebrity culture in relation to the rise of cosmetic surgery. The perspective developed is one that attempts to bridge certain developments in social theory and psychoanalytic studies. By drawing on Horton and Wohl’s notion of ‘para-social interaction’, as well as Thompson’s idea of ‘intimacy at a distance’, a critical cultural approach is developed for the analysis of how celebrity bodies become key sites of identification, imitation and desire. The article also draws from the psychoanalytic notion of identification in order to recast the relationship between fandom and celebrity. My argument is that popular and media cultures today are introducing a wholesale shift away from a focus on personalities to celebrity body-parts and their artificial enhancement. To view the body in the light of celebrity culture means, in effect, to see the self increasingly in terms of possible surgical alterations.
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