When we decided on the theme of Desecrating Celebrity for the Fourth Celebrity Studies International Conference at Sapienza University in Rome, 2018, none of the most powerful examples of contemporary desecration had yet occurred. We were still to see the allegations of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse laid by over 80 women against Hollywood film producer, Harvey Weinstein. This, in turn, gave rise to the #metoo movement and the flood of male stars and celebrities who were accused of using their positions of power for their own ends, including Kevin Spacey. We were still to see: Bill Cosby’s final metamorphosis from the beloved, cuddly patriarch of The Cosby Show, into an inveterate predator; the tax evasion scandal that engulfed Cristiano Ronaldo, and the subsequent rape allegations levelled against him; the ferocious divorce between cult and mainstream idol Johnny Deep and Amber Heard, including allegations of spousal abuse; the demise of Brangelina’s marriage and the battle over alimony and who would be custodians over their children; and the airing of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland which accuses Michael Jackson of paedophilia. There are numerous other examples, a veritable polluted sea of falls from grace and the perversion of star and celebrity images: it was if desecration was now the dominant, the central determinant of celebrity culture. Of course, many of the examples listed here are tied to sexual power and the ideologies that shape them. Even if such determination can be questioned – stars and celebrities continue to provide cohering social myths to bind with – the issues of degradation, desecration and decelebrification are an integral part of the complex phenomenon of celebrity. Unsurprisingly the switch between steps related to consecration and degradation in celebrity life is a constant: the rise and fall narrative, a central component of star and fan identification streams, and media marketing. For some stars, such as Fatty Arbuckle and Paul Reubens, the desecrating moment marked the end of their career and the longlasting revocation from the dominant culture’s collective memory. That said, even when a star or celebrity falls from grace their decline becomes a media story in itself, and for some fans the trade and traffic in their perverse memorabilia produces new modes of affective engagement (Schickel 2000). Nonetheless, the flows of consecration and desecration are marked by media fields and technologies and the conceptualisation of ‘near’ and far’, whether it be the big screen, and the slow time of print and analogue technologies, or the liquid quick time of the digital age. The question of proximity and intimacy is often argued to increase with such

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亵渎名人

当我们决定2018年在罗马的萨皮恩扎大学举行的第四次名人研究国际会议上的亵渎名人主题时，还没有发生过当代亵渎最有力的例子。我们仍然可以看到80多个女人对好莱坞电影制片人哈维·温斯坦（Harvey Weinstein）提出的强奸，性侵犯和性虐待指控。反过来，这引起了#metoo运动，并引发了男性明星和名人的泛滥，他们被指控利用自己的权力立场来实现自己的目的，包括Kevin Spacey。我们仍然可以看到：比尔·科斯比（Bill Cosby）从“科斯比秀（The Cosby Show）”的挚爱，可爱的族长的最后蜕变，变成了一个顽固的捕食者；席卷克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多的逃税丑闻，随后针对他的强奸指控也升级了；邪教与主流偶像约翰尼·迪普（Johnny Deep）和艾伯·赫德（Amber Heard）之间的激烈离婚，包括对配偶虐待的指控；Brangelina的婚姻的灭亡以及lim养费的争斗以及谁将成为子女的监护人；以及HBO纪录片《离开梦幻岛》的播出，该片指责迈克尔·杰克逊有恋童癖。还有许多其他例子，如名副其实的污染之源，来自恩典的堕落，以及明星和名人形象的变态：这就是如果亵渎现在是主要的决定因素，即名人文化的中心决定因素。当然，这里列出的许多例子都与性能力和塑造它们的意识形态有关。即使可以质疑这样的决定-明星和名人继续提供连贯的社会神话来加以约束-退化问题，亵渎和贬低是复杂的名人现象不可或缺的一部分。毫不奇怪，与名人生活的奉献和降级有关的步骤之间的切换是一个常数：上升和下降叙述，明星和粉丝识别流的核心组成部分以及媒体营销。对于某些明星，例如Fatty Arbuckle和Paul Reubens，亵渎的时刻标志着他们职业生涯的结束，也是对主流文化集体记忆的长期撤销。也就是说，即使当明星或名人从优雅中堕落时，他们的衰落本身也就成为了媒体的故事，对于一些粉丝来说，不良纪念品中的交易和交易会产生新的情感参与方式（Schickel 2000）。尽管如此，媒体领域和技术以及“近距离”和“远距离”的概念化标志着奉献和亵渎的潮流，无论是大屏幕，印刷和模拟技术的缓慢发展，还是数字时代的快速发展。人们通常认为亲近和亲密的问题随着这种情况而增加