Overview
- First scholarly book on Russell Brand
- Explores Brand's relationship to activist communities
- Considers the potential and problems of Russell Brand’s left-wing/activist celebrity capital in a ‘post-political’ age
- Shows how Brand orchestrates his campaign across different media platforms, using the power of his celebrity brand and his skills as a comedian and entertainer to engage a wider audience
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jane Arthurs is Professor of Television at Middlesex University. She has published widely on film and television and feminist cultural studies. Her book Television and Sexuality on how the cultural politics of taste affects production, regulation and consumption, includes her well known essay on ‘Sex and the City and Consumer Culture’.
Ben Little is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Politics at the University of East Anglia. He co-edits Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture and is series editor for the Radical Future ebook series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics
Authors: Jane Arthurs, Ben Little
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59628-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59627-7Published: 28 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59628-4Published: 05 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 141
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Performance, Political Communication, Performing Arts, Democracy, Cultural Theory, Comedy Studies