'A first-rate book, highly original and grounded in the top scholarship. The writing is clear and lucid, the examples compelling, and Redmond's coverage of categories, themes, and personalities surrounding celebrity is masterful. Succinct but comprehensive in coverage, this accessible, up-to-date and useful book is well placed to become the text of choice both for university courses and a broader public.' - Douglas Kellner, UCLA, USA 'In this path-breaking and original work, Sean Redmond constructs a poetics of celebrity. Part auto-ethnography, part a physiology of the celebrity commodity chain, he traces the existential links that bind and simultaneously empower the fan in a search for meaning, a reinvention of the self through, and sometimes against, the seductive images of celebrity.' - Barry King, Professor of Communications, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 'While Redmond stands divided on the darkness and pleasures of the impact of fame, his embodied act of writing on sensing celebrities and enabling sensual agency of readers is what makes this book outstanding, rare, and unique' - Samita Nandy, Celebrity Studies, 2016
