Book 2, Ep. 5 | Celebrity Studies
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week we've brought together the Who's Who of the Wizarding World for the event of the season you won't want to miss – an episode on Celebrity Studies! Notable guests include the winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award (five times in a row!) and Poor Famous Harry Potter, who can't even go into a bookshop without making the front page. With a little help from Colin Creevey's camera, we focus our critical lens on how celebrity is constructed in the Wizarding World and our own, what it means to be a 'reluctant celebrity', and how the fame of a certain Author Who Shall Not Be Named gives her license to publish utter nonsense and get away with it.
NB: You may notice that mid-way through this episode, Marcelle's voice starts to sound different. Unfortunately, her microphone failed while recording and we couldn't find the right spell to fix it!
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Citations:
Trevor Parry-Giles (2011) Harry Potter and the paradoxical critique of celebrity culture, Celebrity Studies, 2:3, 305-319, DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2011.609338
Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi (2014) Harry Potter’s Secret: The Rise of Publishing Sensations from Mary Braddon to J. K. Rowling, English Studies, 95:2, 131-148, DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.882126
Su Holmes & Sean Redmond (2010) A journal in Celebrity Studies, Celebrity Studies, 1:1, 1-10, DOI: 10.1080/19392390903519016
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and And I'm Marcell, I don't know if you know this, but I'm a pretty big deal. |
| 0:18.0 | You know what, Hannah, you've always been a big deal to me, |
| 0:21.0 | but tell me more. Well, this one time I was yelling at a man in public and then a |
| 0:26.7 | podcast listener recognized me from yelling at a man. So I'm pretty sure that makes me a celebrity. |
| 0:32.1 | Oh, it absolutely does. |
| 0:34.0 | I love this. |
| 0:35.0 | But don't even worry, I'm trying to stay humble, |
| 0:38.0 | so I'm still willing to join you in the sorting chat. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you, Hannah. |
| 0:44.3 | Yeah, you're very welcome. |
| 0:45.4 | You should feel honored, though. |
| 0:47.2 | So, Hannah, can I share with you something |
| 0:49.0 | that I've been thinking a lot about? |
| 0:50.6 | You know this is going to be exciting |
| 0:51.8 | because I've been thinking about it while I've been putting together my readings for teaching this semester. |
| 0:57.0 | It's going to be great. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm ready. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay, so one of my classes this semester is called reading class and ideology, |
| 1:03.6 | which you and yourself have taught in the past. |
| 1:05.5 | I have, you know what? |
| 1:06.5 | It's still my favorite course I've ever taught. |
| 1:08.8 | Well, I'm very excited about this class. |
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