Spring-Serenity Duvall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spring-Serenity Duvall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spring-Serenity |
| FAMILY NAME | Duvall |
| SIGNATURE | DUVALL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salem College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2380-9905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
You live, you learn
Alanis Morissette has come to signify a particular kind of ageing Generation X female celebrity since her initial rise to fame almost three decades ago. This project traces her career and maturation in the glare of transnational media that often fail to accept evolutions in her music and identities as she ages. Exploring scholarship on intergenerational feminism, I seek to establish how Morissette is iconic of discourses that situate women within…
Becoming Celebrity Girl Activists
Young girls have historically been symbols to be conjured by social movements to garner sympathy for social causes, but are frequently silenced as political agents. This study addresses the celebrification of non-celebrity girls such as Emma González, Greta Thunberg, and Marley Dias and analyzes how backlash politics promote their fame. Some ordinary girls become celebrity activists in part because the trolling and negative media coverage helps p…
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor rose from obscurity to notoriety in the aftermath of her killing by police officers in her home. The celebrification of Taylor as an innocent young Black woman was central to the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer of 2020. This essay examines the process by which celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and artists such as Amy Sherald memorialized Taylor, while activists rallied to demand that officers be held accountable for h…
Quiet celebrity in the time of pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly escalated in early 2020 and shelter-at-home orders cascaded around the world, celebrities streamed live performances from living rooms, home studios, and empty opera houses. Social media buzzed with gratitude for the entertainment, inspiration, and camaraderie that developed between ordinary citizens and celebrities sharing music from isolation via media technology. Celebrities also called upon their industry conn…
Celebrity Travels
Too Famous to Protest
In 2016, National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a high-profile protest of police brutality and mass incarceration that prompted outrage among far-right communities and media. Given the prominence and significance of Kaepernick’s protest, it is vital to study the far-right social media backlash that propelled boycotts of the NFL, drove news cycles, and positioned celebrity athletes as too privileged to protest oppression…
BlackLivesMatter
The #BlackLivesMatter, or #BLM, movement was founded in 2012 by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The hashtag was first used on the social media platform Twitter to call attention to the injustice of the situation. Many celebrities have taken up the hashtag and used their own social media accounts to draw attention to the movement. This is different from past for…
Masculine interventions and transnational celebrity activism in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
For a time following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, two male celebrity activists dominated transnational media coverage of the recovery effort. Grammy-award winning musician Wyclef Jean and actor/director Sean Penn both reacted swiftly by travelling to Haiti and garnered praise for their financial and organisational contributions to the relief efforts. The two men also engaged in a brief conflict over who was the more legitimate act…
Not “Simply the Breast”
Two prominent media events involving breastfeeding celebrities prompted unprecedented transnational media attention to their bodies, their breastfeeding practices, and their beliefs about the act of breastfeeding. This study critically analyzes media representations of Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie that feature (or imply) a nursing celebrity breast to argue that discourses about celebrity breastfeeding are a semiotically potent phenomenon that d…
“Every Parent's Worst Nightmare”
Through a content analysis, this study seeks to uncover the predominant narrative themes centered on gender and class that shaped mainstream US newspaper coverage of child kidnappings from 2000 to 2003. The abductions that dominated news coverage were neither random nor representative cases; clear patterns emerged in the kidnappings that garnered the most media attention. Though statistically rare, the news media disproportionally covered stories…
Perfect Little Feminists
Girls' studies has emerged as a dynamic area of scholarship that examines the cultural construction of girlhood, the role that girls play in society, their identity formation, and their representation in media. This paper extends previous research by interviewing young girls aged 6 to 12 years old about their interactions with each other as they view animated cartoons. Expanding claims that Girl Power media empower young viewers, I showed clips f…
BlackLivesMatter
The #BlackLivesMatter, or #BLM, movement was founded in 2012 by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The hashtag was first used on the social media platform Twitter to call attention to the injustice of the situation. Many celebrities have taken up the hashtag and used their own social media accounts to draw attention to the movement. This is different from past for…
Not “Simply the Breast”
Two prominent media events involving breastfeeding celebrities prompted unprecedented transnational media attention to their bodies, their breastfeeding practices, and their beliefs about the act of breastfeeding. This study critically analyzes media representations of Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie that feature (or imply) a nursing celebrity breast to argue that discourses about celebrity breastfeeding are a semiotically potent phenomenon that d…
Too Famous to Protest
In 2016, National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a high-profile protest of police brutality and mass incarceration that prompted outrage among far-right communities and media. Given the prominence and significance of Kaepernick’s protest, it is vital to study the far-right social media backlash that propelled boycotts of the NFL, drove news cycles, and positioned celebrity athletes as too privileged to protest oppression…
Becoming Celebrity Girl Activists
Young girls have historically been symbols to be conjured by social movements to garner sympathy for social causes, but are frequently silenced as political agents. This study addresses the celebrification of non-celebrity girls such as Emma González, Greta Thunberg, and Marley Dias and analyzes how backlash politics promote their fame. Some ordinary girls become celebrity activists in part because the trolling and negative media coverage helps p…
Masculine interventions and transnational celebrity activism in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
For a time following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, two male celebrity activists dominated transnational media coverage of the recovery effort. Grammy-award winning musician Wyclef Jean and actor/director Sean Penn both reacted swiftly by travelling to Haiti and garnered praise for their financial and organisational contributions to the relief efforts. The two men also engaged in a brief conflict over who was the more legitimate act…
You live, you learn
Alanis Morissette has come to signify a particular kind of ageing Generation X female celebrity since her initial rise to fame almost three decades ago. This project traces her career and maturation in the glare of transnational media that often fail to accept evolutions in her music and identities as she ages. Exploring scholarship on intergenerational feminism, I seek to establish how Morissette is iconic of discourses that situate women within…
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor rose from obscurity to notoriety in the aftermath of her killing by police officers in her home. The celebrification of Taylor as an innocent young Black woman was central to the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer of 2020. This essay examines the process by which celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and artists such as Amy Sherald memorialized Taylor, while activists rallied to demand that officers be held accountable for h…
Quiet celebrity in the time of pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly escalated in early 2020 and shelter-at-home orders cascaded around the world, celebrities streamed live performances from living rooms, home studios, and empty opera houses. Social media buzzed with gratitude for the entertainment, inspiration, and camaraderie that developed between ordinary citizens and celebrities sharing music from isolation via media technology. Celebrities also called upon their industry conn…
Perfect Little Feminists
Girls' studies has emerged as a dynamic area of scholarship that examines the cultural construction of girlhood, the role that girls play in society, their identity formation, and their representation in media. This paper extends previous research by interviewing young girls aged 6 to 12 years old about their interactions with each other as they view animated cartoons. Expanding claims that Girl Power media empower young viewers, I showed clips f…
“Every Parent's Worst Nightmare”
Through a content analysis, this study seeks to uncover the predominant narrative themes centered on gender and class that shaped mainstream US newspaper coverage of child kidnappings from 2000 to 2003. The abductions that dominated news coverage were neither random nor representative cases; clear patterns emerged in the kidnappings that garnered the most media attention. Though statistically rare, the news media disproportionally covered stories…
Not “Simply the Breast”
Two prominent media events involving breastfeeding celebrities prompted unprecedented transnational media attention to their bodies, their breastfeeding practices, and their beliefs about the act of breastfeeding. This study critically analyzes media representations of Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie that feature (or imply) a nursing celebrity breast to argue that discourses about celebrity breastfeeding are a semiotically potent phenomenon that d…
Masculine interventions and transnational celebrity activism in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
For a time following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, two male celebrity activists dominated transnational media coverage of the recovery effort. Grammy-award winning musician Wyclef Jean and actor/director Sean Penn both reacted swiftly by travelling to Haiti and garnered praise for their financial and organisational contributions to the relief efforts. The two men also engaged in a brief conflict over who was the more legitimate act…
BlackLivesMatter
The #BlackLivesMatter, or #BLM, movement was founded in 2012 by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The hashtag was first used on the social media platform Twitter to call attention to the injustice of the situation. Many celebrities have taken up the hashtag and used their own social media accounts to draw attention to the movement. This is different from past for…
Celebrity Travels
Too Famous to Protest
In 2016, National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a high-profile protest of police brutality and mass incarceration that prompted outrage among far-right communities and media. Given the prominence and significance of Kaepernick’s protest, it is vital to study the far-right social media backlash that propelled boycotts of the NFL, drove news cycles, and positioned celebrity athletes as too privileged to protest oppression…
Quiet celebrity in the time of pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly escalated in early 2020 and shelter-at-home orders cascaded around the world, celebrities streamed live performances from living rooms, home studios, and empty opera houses. Social media buzzed with gratitude for the entertainment, inspiration, and camaraderie that developed between ordinary citizens and celebrities sharing music from isolation via media technology. Celebrities also called upon their industry conn…
Celebrification of Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor rose from obscurity to notoriety in the aftermath of her killing by police officers in her home. The celebrification of Taylor as an innocent young Black woman was central to the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer of 2020. This essay examines the process by which celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and artists such as Amy Sherald memorialized Taylor, while activists rallied to demand that officers be held accountable for h…
Becoming Celebrity Girl Activists
Young girls have historically been symbols to be conjured by social movements to garner sympathy for social causes, but are frequently silenced as political agents. This study addresses the celebrification of non-celebrity girls such as Emma González, Greta Thunberg, and Marley Dias and analyzes how backlash politics promote their fame. Some ordinary girls become celebrity activists in part because the trolling and negative media coverage helps p…
You live, you learn
Alanis Morissette has come to signify a particular kind of ageing Generation X female celebrity since her initial rise to fame almost three decades ago. This project traces her career and maturation in the glare of transnational media that often fail to accept evolutions in her music and identities as she ages. Exploring scholarship on intergenerational feminism, I seek to establish how Morissette is iconic of discourses that situate women within…
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