While Sanders deftly played the game of Black respectability politics during his short tenure, Jackson State had motives of its own when it hired the former NFL star.
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Today she is most recognised for roles in Mary Poppins or The Sound of Music, but Julie Andrews made her professional West End debut at the age of 12.
What do we love about seeing children perform? And how do their performances shape our understanding of childhood?
Presley never wrote a memoir. Nor did he keep a diary. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but he didn’t even write his songs.
Pronouncements made by the Chinese government often cloak a hidden agenda.
Unloading about trauma and mental illness is in vogue. But like undressing, it centers musicians’ vulnerabilities at the expense of their artistry.
Daft Punk’s anonymity was really a stroke of genius.
Over the past year, the singer has carefully constructed a visage that has made him nearly unrecognizable.
The return of actors like Karate Kid Ralph Macchio and Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter sees them older and wiser. Fewer role revivals remind us of character growth related to womanhood.
Just like in the days following 9/11, celebrities most successfully use their star power in the COVID-19 crisis when they appear to step out of the limelight, publicly praising first responders.
Movie director Joel Schumacher’s body of work is profound, and his influence on contemporary Hollywood cinema indelible.
Forty years since Fame showed the vulnerability of performing arts students, we can still do more to protect them. As we resume physical contact, we can use performance to renegotiate safe intimacy.
Fame changes the bonds that some African footballers have with their home communities.
A social psychologist explains how you can be so deeply affected by the death of someone you’ve never met.
Only recently did it come to represent the dream of fame.
Desperate to achieve fame by any means necessary, Manson was ahead of his time: Today, the delirious pursuit of fame has gone mainstream.
A newly published batch of Ernest Hemingway’s letters could change the way we think about the author’s influences, relationships with other writers and views on race.
George Michael’s posthumous documentary Freedom reveals the star’s tension between pop-stardom and privacy.
One of English poetry’s most recognisable voices has been memorialised in Westminster Abbey.
Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn’t despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Associate Dean of Arts, Professor Visual & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Fashion Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Research Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Huddersfield
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Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Digital Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Boston University
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Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
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