One re-enchanted evening: The Academy Awards as a mediated ritual within celebrity culture
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One re-enchanted evening : The Academy Awards as a mediated ritual within celebrity culture. / Haastrup, Helle Kannik.
In: Nordic Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 6, 2008, p. 127-142.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - One re-enchanted evening
T2 - The Academy Awards as a mediated ritual within celebrity culture
AU - Haastrup, Helle Kannik
N1 - The Mediatization of Religion: Enchantment, Media and Popular Culture
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This is a case study of the Oscars ceremony, 2007, analysing how the awards show works as a mediated ritual within celebrity culture. In the analysis, I characterize the Oscars as an example of a live media event, and then I analyse how it is connected to celebrity culture and, eventually, I discuss whether it can be said to have religious affinities and perhaps even be an example of a replacement strategy for the decline in organized religion. In my analysis I combine sociological analysis of the media event genre as presented by Dayan & Katz, as well as Couldry, with cultural analysis of celebrity culture and stars as argued by Rojek, Turner, Morin and Dyer. On the basis of this analysis, I want to argue that the Academy Awards ceremony can be seen as a re-enchanted evening on several levels: as a live media event, a mediated ritual and as presenting glamorous stars as objects of identification.
AB - This is a case study of the Oscars ceremony, 2007, analysing how the awards show works as a mediated ritual within celebrity culture. In the analysis, I characterize the Oscars as an example of a live media event, and then I analyse how it is connected to celebrity culture and, eventually, I discuss whether it can be said to have religious affinities and perhaps even be an example of a replacement strategy for the decline in organized religion. In my analysis I combine sociological analysis of the media event genre as presented by Dayan & Katz, as well as Couldry, with cultural analysis of celebrity culture and stars as argued by Rojek, Turner, Morin and Dyer. On the basis of this analysis, I want to argue that the Academy Awards ceremony can be seen as a re-enchanted evening on several levels: as a live media event, a mediated ritual and as presenting glamorous stars as objects of identification.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - religion
KW - mediated ritual
KW - media event
KW - stars
KW - celebrity culture
KW - awards show
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
SP - 127
EP - 142
JO - Nordic Journal of Media Studies
JF - Nordic Journal of Media Studies
SN - 1601-829X
ER -
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