From unwilling celebrity to authored icon
ReadingAmy(Kapadia, 2015)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5675306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Andrews (0000-0002-9198-2294, Edge Hill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351-354 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Celebrity Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1939-2397 • E-ISSN: 1939-2400 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19392397.2017.1311634 |
| OpenAlex | W2531711948 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Asif Kapadia’s cinematic biography, Amy (2015) is a critically and commercially successful documentary feature that portrays the life and untimely death of celebrated singer Amy Winehouse. The film emphasises Winehouse’s ambivalent relationship with fame, while tracing the damaging effects that unwanted celebrity had on her physical and mental health. In this forum article, I assess the merits and problems with the film as a biography/obituary. I focus particularly in its representation of a disorderly female celebrity (Holmes and Negra 2011) and in its disavowal of the authored construction of its subject through a tonal register and stylistic structure that implies intimacy and authenticity
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Biography · Flemish · Icon · Linguistics · Obituary · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |