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...Leo Ou-fan Lee Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Shanghai Modern: Reflections on Urban Culture in China in the 1930s Leo Ou-fan Lee B y 1930, Shanghai had become...

..., for example, she drank a liter of wine, cut a five-pointed star in her stomach, and lay down on a cross made of ice blocks. By contrast, “The Artist Is Present” made it relatively easy for Abramović’s voluntary public and fans to imitate her, since it required only that they wait in line and then engage...

... as to the vehicles and drivers plying it, reminding us that it’s the journey, not the destination. To recall a meme popularized by Marshall McLuhan, a networked celebrity intellectual commenting on the changes wrought by electronic media: the medium is the message. The distinction between fans and celebrities...

... Carlos A. Forment Half an hour or so into my second interview with Hector, a self-described football fan of Huracán, with its clubhouse and stadium in Parque Patricios, a poor neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires, I asked this 46-year- old car mechanic and sometime...

... videos posted to sites like YouTube. 3 Out of the top one hundred Instagram accounts on Web.stagram.com as of March 2014, only two are private. @louist91, for instance, has 2,884,101 followers but only follows 21. He is a member of the popular boy band One Direction, suggesting that fans follow...

... Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Literature Cited Habermas , Jürgen . [ 1962 ] 1991. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Cambridge: MIT press. Lee , Leo Ou-fan . 1993 . “Critical Spaces: The Construction of Cultural Criticism in Modern China...

..., reality vocal competition shows — network television’s puppy mills for pop music aspirants — go to great lengths to distance their participants from fans and laypeople who blow off steam by singing karaoke in local watering holes. Simon Cowell, arguably American Idol ’s most discerning judge, led...

... but, as Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ackbar Abbas, and others have recently shown, it has been a “cosmopolitan metropolis” all along.11 Leo Ou-fan Lee has shown indeed how the foreign presence in Shanghai pro- duced new kinds of public...

... they shout and proclaim victory as if their team had just won. This idea of Weather Channel watchers as fans of the weather borrows both on stereotypes of men as fanatic sports fans and on the image of the nerdy male scientist...

...- ogy of democracy, for lack of any other conception of legitimate political agency. (Having lost our faith in class struggle, as a mode of expressing the Ernst Junger, Kampf ols inneres Erlebnis, quoted by Klaus Theweleit, Male Fan- tasies, vol. 2, trans. Erica Carter and Chris Turner et...

..., be they voluntary or involuntary publics or fans. In so doing, Marcus emphasizes the power of celebrity influence, as well as the dependence of celebrities on their audiences. And here, of course, lies one of Marcus’s many major innovations: framing the celebrity (as an individual and as an institution) as a part...

... toward me to share a confidence. “As I’m sure you can tell,” he grinned, “I don’t like soccer. But some excellent pictures may be had of the fans.” Again he took charge of explaining his “culture” to the anthropologist: soccer, he said, is much more popular in the south, but “here” not so much...

... tuning in to follow the coverage of dates, weddings, children, and scandals. This phenomenon is, of course, not altogether new. Scholars of classical Hollywood film stardom have long discussed how materials such as gossip and fan magazines allowed filmgoers to experience stars outside the confines...

... (2015 : 49) has recently argued, the opportunities provided by new media, while by no means eliminating the status hierarchies that attach to older forms of celebrity, have made it significantly easier for “fans to address celebrities, celebrities to address fans, and fans to address one another...

... 1999), book reviews appeared under a page titled “(F)Arting About: Arty Things to Do and See,” and the trope of the fan predominates. Of Elmore Leonard’s Cuba Libre (1998), it is written: “If you are an Elmore Leonard fan, you will thoroughly enjoy Cuba Libre. And if you’re not, read this and you...

... . 2015 . It’s Been Beautiful: “Soul!” and Black Power Television . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . 2 In 2011 Woody Harrelson and Sigourney Weaver starred in a feature-length film version of the events. 1 It wasn’t lost on hip-hop fans that Nas (from Queens) and KRS-One (from...

... Indian fans who wanted him to pose for souvenir photographs, the crowd was remarkably restrained given his stature and popularity. “This is nothing like what happened in New Jersey,” where the megastar was apparently overwhelmed by a crowd of nearly 500 fans, Dadlaney confided to India...

... and the cattle-shed ah! The village is in sight. - Satyendranath That Village is Still There. The Village-Culture Cannot Be Obliterated. If We Do Not Have the Palanquin, We Still Have the Hand-fan,the Harvest RituaI l2 Here the implicit...

... for 500 years and I hear talk of revolution. The idea of what’s going on down here is great so I’m here to fan the flames. That revolutionary spirit is spreading. I would love for this to lead to liberation for my people and all people. All Power...

... apology was offered. The cops were obviously not fans of cumbia sonidera , or else, instead of racially profiling a middle-aged man from Mexico City with a legitimate work visa as a drug trafficker, they would have profiled him for what he actually is, a dangerous DJ carrying three truck rigs full...