Representation Of A Celebrity Research Paper

Celebrity has invaded every part of our contemporary Western cultur, this infliltration is closely tied to new communication technologies (Meyers, 17-18). Within this culture the problematic cultural norms of gender and sexuality are perpetuated; young female celebrities are held to an entirely different expectation to their male counterparts. These discussions of celebrity in contemporary culture have found their way into New Zealand, take for example the gossip around TV3’s the Bachelor NZ, that has ensued even after the series has ended.While audiences may be familiar with the celebrity as a highly constructed commodity, in contemporary culture, the line between a celebrity’s personal and private self is blurred (Meyers, 10). The representation

As Boorstin suggests, the celebrity is fabricated in order to satisfy “our exaggerated expectations of human greatness’. In doing this celebrity also exaggerate the flaws that work against set cultural norms (Turner, 3). Celebrity has a history, during the golden age of Hollywood, gossip columnists reframed the ways audiences engaged with celebrity culture , through a significant shift to gossip about the personal lives of stars (Meyers, 24). A recent article on Stuff.co.nz, “The Bachelor NZ: Naz 's text to other man revealed” illuminates this gossip culture, the way it intertwines her life of fame and her private life. This gossip culture is an environment that produces, circulates and consumes pesonal desire, therefore organising and negotiating the cultural norm of social interaction (Meyers 19). The ‘crisis’ female celebrity’s role in this negotiation is her allusion to a larger set of dilemmas in western culture about the role of women in public life (Negra,

For example the scale of reporting on New Zealand’s Bachelor on websites such asS tuff.co.nz even after the show’s finale, a local reality television show has becomes a national current even through the emphasis on celebrity culture. Parasocial interactions through social media emphasise this discourse, the aforementioned article uses Naz’ social media intteractions to expose her her ‘other’ man. Naz’ celebrity is both the cultivation of her persona as reality TV star and the ideological context within which that persona could develop