Of agency and embodiment

Angelina Jolie's autographic transformations

Bibliographic Data

ID5675288
AuthorsKathleen Mchugh (0000-0001-6891-5213, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume5
Issue1-2
Pages5-19
Publication date2014-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCelebrity Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1939-2397 • E-ISSN: 1939-2400
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19392397.2014.887531
OpenAlexW1998773784
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

This article analyses Angelina Jolie through her status as an exemplary celebrity – that is, as both particular and typical – considering how that exemplarity has been constructed through gender over the last two decades. The article focuses specifically on Jolie’s autographic presentation of her agency and embodiment, two elements crucial to gender analysis in celebrity studies. From the 1990s to the 2000s, Jolie’s celebrity underwent a significant transformation that altered the dimensions, scope, and character of her celebrity image. From a provocative ‘bad girl’, she became a global action star, philanthropist, committed partner in the Jolie–Pitt celebrity dyad, and mother of six, including adoptive children born in Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam, and biological children born in Namibia and France. Surprisingly, as her power, visibility, and global celebrity increased, her presentation of her agency has assumed a more receptive, feminine, and invisible character

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