TY - BOOK AU - Wheeler,Mark TI - Celebrity politics: image and identity in contemporary political communications T2 - Palgrave Macmillan series in global public diplomacy SN - 9780745652498 (pbk.) AV - JA 85 W563c 2013 U1 - 306.2 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press KW - Communication in politics KW - Celebrities KW - Political activity KW - Politics and culture KW - Comunicación en política KW - Política y cultura KW - Celebridades KW - Actividad política KW - fast KW - Politische Kultur KW - gnd KW - Berühmte Persönlichkeit KW - Politische Kommunikation N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index; Celebrity politics in an era of late modernity -- A historical analysis of celebrity politics: the American experience -- The mediatization of celebrity politics in modern partisan affairs within the United States and the United Kingdom -- Celebrity politicians as campaign stars -- Politicized celebrities: agency and activism -- Transnational celebrity activism: advocacy and diplomacy N2 - In this new book, Mark Wheeler offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, nature and global reach of celebrity politics today. Celebrity politicians and politicized celebrities have had a profound impact upon the practice of politics and the way in which it is now communicated UR - http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9780745678931 UR - http://www.dawsonera.com/guard/protected/dawson.jsp?name=London%20Metropolitan%20University&dest=http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9780745678931 UR - http://catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk/record=b1682232~S1 ER -