The politics of revolutionary celebrity in the contemporary arab world

• Autores: Marwan M Kraidy
• Localización: Public culture, ISSN-e 1527-8018, Vol. 27, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 161-183
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay grapples with Arab celebrity as an overtly political, inherently transnational phenomenon and explores how revolutionary celebrity may expand our understanding of celebrity writ large. Through the prism of a media battle between the singer Assala and the Assad regime in the Syrian uprising since March 2011, a politics of celebrity is explored that pits the body of the star against the body of the sovereign, at the nexus of revolution, transnationalism, and circulation across media.