Andrea McDonnell, Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines

摘要

In her first book, Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines, Andrea McDonnell takes on our celebrity-obsessed popular culture and, in particular, the "hot-pink headlines" of the tabloid magazines that narrate it. Her study of these magazines resonates with incredible depth, a dash of humor, and perhaps most interestingly, a genuine empathy for the female readership of which she is a part. Her perspective as a fellow fan of the genre opens a unique and frankly fresh take on critical inquiry into "the popular feminine." This framework lays bare the tensions of modern readers' love or hate relationship with the genre and uses those tensions to create important research questions and areas of investigation.