The present issue of Film Fashion & Consumption emerges from the desire to explore the world of celebrities – and their role – in moments of crisis. It tackles a set of features apparent in prominent personalities and idols of many sorts, found on-screen and off-screen, in photographic reportage or discourse. These features are critical aspects that have traditionally been kept away from celebrities’ polished images. Celebrities stand out, in effect, for their being a winning model, capable of conveying an image close to perfection. Exploring how and when celebrities show, narrate and present themselves in a condition of imperfection or in an unconventional, disputable or defective position, is instrumental to understanding a society’s conceptualization of a number of critical conditions, such as cultural marginalization, impairment, ageing or death (Andò et al. 2018). Crisis emerges in the following pages as a multifaceted and complex concept. It can be an epochshattering flux of media phenomena, a sanitary crisis, or instead a transition in individual self-representational strategies induced by technological overturns. Celebrities manifest themselves in ways that are embedded in economic and social systems. They can therefore express resilience. Their fame's extended lifespan can be inspirational. They can convey the potential to overcome the impact of a crisis showing innovation dynamics and flexible adaptation to an environment where risk and uncertainty is high. Crisis can open up to innovative glimpses, which branch out from the fields of film, media and fashion and become rooted in society.
Celebrity and crisis. Special Issue di Film Fashion &Consumption, 2023, n.12 (2)
Pesce, Sara
Primo
;Mascio, Antonella
2023
Abstract
The present issue of Film Fashion & Consumption emerges from the desire to explore the world of celebrities – and their role – in moments of crisis. It tackles a set of features apparent in prominent personalities and idols of many sorts, found on-screen and off-screen, in photographic reportage or discourse. These features are critical aspects that have traditionally been kept away from celebrities’ polished images. Celebrities stand out, in effect, for their being a winning model, capable of conveying an image close to perfection. Exploring how and when celebrities show, narrate and present themselves in a condition of imperfection or in an unconventional, disputable or defective position, is instrumental to understanding a society’s conceptualization of a number of critical conditions, such as cultural marginalization, impairment, ageing or death (Andò et al. 2018). Crisis emerges in the following pages as a multifaceted and complex concept. It can be an epochshattering flux of media phenomena, a sanitary crisis, or instead a transition in individual self-representational strategies induced by technological overturns. Celebrities manifest themselves in ways that are embedded in economic and social systems. They can therefore express resilience. Their fame's extended lifespan can be inspirational. They can convey the potential to overcome the impact of a crisis showing innovation dynamics and flexible adaptation to an environment where risk and uncertainty is high. Crisis can open up to innovative glimpses, which branch out from the fields of film, media and fashion and become rooted in society.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
