CELEBRITY AND POST-CAREER- The Renegotiation of Celebrity Capital in the Post-Career Era between Media Narratives, Self-Representation Practices and Audience Perceptions

Through a combination of theoretical and methodological approaches — historical-critical, mediological, sociological, and cultorological — the volume aims to convey the complexity of the processes through which celebrity is redefined over the course of the stars’ media lives, highlighting the transformations of autobiographical narratives, the articulations of gender and generational identity, the logics of contemporary visibility, between processes of platformization and algorithmization, and the aesthetics of ageing. Attention will be devoted to the analysis of forms of audiovisual narrative, as well as to the processes of authorship and self-representation in social media, which today constitute privileged spaces for the construction of new subjectivities in the end-of-career and post-career phases.