Nothing less than perfect
Female Celebrity, Ageing and Hyper-Scrutiny in the Gossip Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5675396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsty Fairclough (0000-0002-1773-5826, University of Salford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90-103 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| 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 | 10.1080/19392397.2012.644723 |
| OpenAlex | W2119889271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 9 |
From Perez Hilton to Lainey Lui, the figure of the gossip blogger no longer exists solely on the periphery of celebrity culture. The ‘bitchy’ personas that celebrity gossip bloggers espouse are now firmly embedded within mainstream media. Gossip blogs regularly feature posts that scrutinise female celebrities in terms of how well, or not, they age. Much of this scrutiny is centred on narratives of cosmetic surgery. This article will examine such narratives and discuss the ways in which the construction of the ageing female celebrity and the state of endless transformation that is so revered in neo-liberal and post-feminist cultures operates in the gossip industry, suggesting that the notion of continual self-maintenance through consumption has become a necessity in a society that rewards continual corporeal change
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Epistemology · Gossip · Humanities · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Monster · Narrative · Nothing · Persona · Political science · Scrutiny · Sociology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
The governance of snarking
The look of ageing
« Sexy sirens in their sixties ». Vieillir en (post-)féministe dans And Just Like That… (HBO, 2022)
Retiring against time
She’s my bitch eating crackers”
Emerging, disappearing, re-emerging
Gendered ageing bodies in popular media culture
Exciting” and “borderline offensive”
The “baby brain” stereotype and policing of pregnant women’s competence
From Girl to Grotesque
Creating a patchwork of unruliness
It takes a long time to become young’
Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires
Same-Old, Same-Old”
Media, Cosmetic Surgery and Aspirational Beauty Aesthetics of the Ageing Body in South Korea
I played by all the rules! Why didn’t you tell me there weren’t any rules, it’s not fair!’
The labour of decline
Starring the menomoir
Celebrity critiquing
About Face
Fakery and the gendered politics of “getting it wrong” on social media
Crisis, conflict and the affective politics of celebrity failure
The hierarchy of celebrity childbirth stories
ReneeZellweger's face
The death of the star
There's more to middle age than a saggy belly
Celebrity, class and gender in Spain
You live, you learn
Ageing on and off the red carpet
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |