Working the red carpet

A Framework for Analysing Celebrities' Red Carpet Labour

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ID5675412
AutoresCaitlin E Lawson (0000-0001-8327-2172, University of Michigan, autor correspondente), Jimmy Draper (University of Michigan)
Ano2021
Volume12
Fascículo4
Páginas635-648
Data de publicação2021-10-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCelebrity Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1939-2397 • E-ISSN: 1939-2400
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19392397.2020.1750969
OpenAlexW3016431078
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas21

This article critically assesses celebrities’ labour on the red carpet, with particular attention to the ways in which they engage with a variety of social and political issues. Through a discursive analysis of three 2019 red carpet events, we explore how the norms and values of the red carpet demand different forms of aesthetic and emotional labour from celebrities. We specifically theorise the concept red carpet labour as the multiple intersecting forms of work that celebrities negotiate on the red carpet, which create and constrain the possibilities for them to intervene in broader cultural conversations during their red carpet appearances. These intersecting forms of labour are laid out in a three-part conceptual framework that argues for scholarly attention to how celebrities (1) participate in the construction of red carpets as pseudoevents, (2) work to create a self-brand on the red carpet, and (3) cultivate relationships with the fashion world

Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law