This article tackles celebrity culture as embodied in the person of one, who, ironically, must-not-be-named: Voldemort. Moving deep into the layers of celebrity cultures in the academy, the world, and the world of the novels, Bhattacharya takes an intriguing, timely, and surprising position: it is less an inherently evil nature of the individual and more the inherently social -- perhaps panoptic -- nature of the world into which Voldemort enters that result in the wizard's criminal notoriety.
Journal
The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's LiteratureISSN
1551-5680Volume
16Issue
1Publisher
La Trobe UniversitySection Title
Alice's AcademyAuthor Biography
Saradindu Bhattacharya is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. He is working towards a doctoral thesis on contemporary representations of the Holocaust across various genres and media. He has recently published an essay on 9/11 memorial websites in the Journal of Creative Communications. His research interests are new media, trauma studies, popular culture and children's literature.Date Created
2012-03-30Rights Statement
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