Gaston Franssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaston Franssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaston |
| FAMILY NAME | Franssen |
| SIGNATURE | FRANSSEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1258-2258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Celebrity crises and conflicts: Introduction to the 2024 conference special issue
Introduction: Celebrity Between Invisibility and Hypervisibility
Making meaning of trauma in psychosis
The outcomes illuminate the social context of the meaning-making challenges that people with psychosis face and illustrate the devastating influence of stigma. Our outcomes offer guidance to remove barriers to adaptive meaning-making in people with psychosis, and can help clinicians to attune to differences in the meaning-making of trauma
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: Introduction
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: Introduction
Recovering Context in Psychiatry: What Contextual Analysis of Service Users' Narratives Can Teach About Recovery Support
Aim: Enhancement of recovery-oriented care in psychiatry requires insight into the personal meaning and context of recovery. The Psychiatry Story Bank is a narrative project, designed to meet this need, by collecting, sharing and studying the narratives of service-users in psychiatry. Our study was aimed at expanding insight into personal recovery through contextual analysis of these first-person narratives. Methods: We analyzed 25 narratives, as…
Introduction: Celebrities for/against Trump
Perhaps the academic disclaimer ‘at the time of writing’ has never been so unavoidable, and at the same time so futile, as in the era of Trump. Since the 45th president of the United States took of
The Dutch star on the flag of Europe: The personalisation of national identity in Geert Wilders’ celebrity politics
This article analyses the political style of the Dutch nationalistpopulist celebrity politician Geert Wilders and examines the ways in which his self-stylisation epitomises both the strategic use of national imagery, and the affective embodiment of associated sentiments in his public persona. Using insights from imagology, we argue, firstly, that Wilders' use of national images allows him to align himself with the traditional narrative of Dutch c…
Introduction: Markle, Trump, and the politics of the personal
Celebrity in the #MeToo Era
Introduction: Transformations of Celebrity Studies: The Inaugural Issue, Ten Years On
‘Our star is yet to be fully born’, Bennett (2010, p. 113), co-founder of Celebrity Studies, mused in the Introduction to the inaugural edition of this journal’s Forum section. Bennett was quick to
The celebritization of self-care: The celebrity health narrative of Demi Lovato and the sickscape of mental illness
Using the threatened yet ultimately reconfirmed celebrity status of pop singer and mental health advocate Demi Lovato as a case study, this article analyzes how celebrity health narratives reflect and produce a neoliberal ideology of individuality in the context of mental health care. It is argued that Lovato has successfully rebranded herself as the embodiment of achievement, self-improvement and confidence by embracing her diagnosis with bipola…
Sincerity and authenticity in celebrity culture: Introduction
In his Harvard lectures of 1969–1970, collected in Sincerity and Authenticity, the American critic Lionel Trillling (1971) at one point states, somewhat surprisingly: ‘Irony is one of those words
The literary auto-representation of Haruki Murakami: Rewriting celebrity authorship in 1Q84
It is difficult to overestimate the fame and success of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. After winning the Gunzō Award with his debut novel Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), he went
Introduction: The celebrity of Haruki Murakami
The celebritization of self-care: The celebrity health narrative of Demi Lovato and the sickscape of mental illness
Using the threatened yet ultimately reconfirmed celebrity status of pop singer and mental health advocate Demi Lovato as a case study, this article analyzes how celebrity health narratives reflect and produce a neoliberal ideology of individuality in the context of mental health care. It is argued that Lovato has successfully rebranded herself as the embodiment of achievement, self-improvement and confidence by embracing her diagnosis with bipola…
Sincerity and authenticity in celebrity culture: Introduction
In his Harvard lectures of 1969–1970, collected in Sincerity and Authenticity, the American critic Lionel Trillling (1971) at one point states, somewhat surprisingly: ‘Irony is one of those words
The Dutch star on the flag of Europe: The personalisation of national identity in Geert Wilders’ celebrity politics
This article analyses the political style of the Dutch nationalistpopulist celebrity politician Geert Wilders and examines the ways in which his self-stylisation epitomises both the strategic use of national imagery, and the affective embodiment of associated sentiments in his public persona. Using insights from imagology, we argue, firstly, that Wilders' use of national images allows him to align himself with the traditional narrative of Dutch c…
Celebrity in the #MeToo Era
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: Introduction
Introduction: Celebrities for/against Trump
Perhaps the academic disclaimer ‘at the time of writing’ has never been so unavoidable, and at the same time so futile, as in the era of Trump. Since the 45th president of the United States took of
Introduction: Transformations of Celebrity Studies: The Inaugural Issue, Ten Years On
‘Our star is yet to be fully born’, Bennett (2010, p. 113), co-founder of Celebrity Studies, mused in the Introduction to the inaugural edition of this journal’s Forum section. Bennett was quick to
The literary auto-representation of Haruki Murakami: Rewriting celebrity authorship in 1Q84
It is difficult to overestimate the fame and success of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. After winning the Gunzō Award with his debut novel Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), he went
The literary auto-representation of Haruki Murakami: Rewriting celebrity authorship in 1Q84
It is difficult to overestimate the fame and success of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. After winning the Gunzō Award with his debut novel Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), he went
Introduction: The celebrity of Haruki Murakami
The celebritization of self-care: The celebrity health narrative of Demi Lovato and the sickscape of mental illness
Using the threatened yet ultimately reconfirmed celebrity status of pop singer and mental health advocate Demi Lovato as a case study, this article analyzes how celebrity health narratives reflect and produce a neoliberal ideology of individuality in the context of mental health care. It is argued that Lovato has successfully rebranded herself as the embodiment of achievement, self-improvement and confidence by embracing her diagnosis with bipola…
Sincerity and authenticity in celebrity culture: Introduction
In his Harvard lectures of 1969–1970, collected in Sincerity and Authenticity, the American critic Lionel Trillling (1971) at one point states, somewhat surprisingly: ‘Irony is one of those words
The Dutch star on the flag of Europe: The personalisation of national identity in Geert Wilders’ celebrity politics
This article analyses the political style of the Dutch nationalistpopulist celebrity politician Geert Wilders and examines the ways in which his self-stylisation epitomises both the strategic use of national imagery, and the affective embodiment of associated sentiments in his public persona. Using insights from imagology, we argue, firstly, that Wilders' use of national images allows him to align himself with the traditional narrative of Dutch c…
Introduction: Markle, Trump, and the politics of the personal
Celebrity in the #MeToo Era
Introduction: Transformations of Celebrity Studies: The Inaugural Issue, Ten Years On
‘Our star is yet to be fully born’, Bennett (2010, p. 113), co-founder of Celebrity Studies, mused in the Introduction to the inaugural edition of this journal’s Forum section. Bennett was quick to
Recovering Context in Psychiatry: What Contextual Analysis of Service Users' Narratives Can Teach About Recovery Support
Aim: Enhancement of recovery-oriented care in psychiatry requires insight into the personal meaning and context of recovery. The Psychiatry Story Bank is a narrative project, designed to meet this need, by collecting, sharing and studying the narratives of service-users in psychiatry. Our study was aimed at expanding insight into personal recovery through contextual analysis of these first-person narratives. Methods: We analyzed 25 narratives, as…
Introduction: Celebrities for/against Trump
Perhaps the academic disclaimer ‘at the time of writing’ has never been so unavoidable, and at the same time so futile, as in the era of Trump. Since the 45th president of the United States took of
Policing the celebrity of Taylor Swift: Introduction
Gendering mental distress in celebrity culture: Introduction
Making meaning of trauma in psychosis
The outcomes illuminate the social context of the meaning-making challenges that people with psychosis face and illustrate the devastating influence of stigma. Our outcomes offer guidance to remove barriers to adaptive meaning-making in people with psychosis, and can help clinicians to attune to differences in the meaning-making of trauma
Introduction: Celebrity Between Invisibility and Hypervisibility
Celebrity crises and conflicts: Introduction to the 2024 conference special issue
Sociology (11 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Advertising (7 works) · Business (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works)