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(Extra)Ordinary? edited by Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk engages in research on the ways and means in which celebrity status has been created, controlled, dispersed and received in the past as well as the present.

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Questioning what "makes" a celebrity and how celebrity is controlled, dispersed and received are aspects branching out of (Extra)Ordinary´s debate over celebrities as ordinary/extraordinary. Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk, together with the authors whose chapters make up this inter-disciplinary discussion, not only utilise the existing research on celebrity and fandom, but they also go beyond the often-quoted theorists to engage in multidirectional analyses of what it means to be a celebrity, and what influence they have on the consuming public. The present book provides an avenue for exploring not just what celebrity is as a discursive construction, but also how this involves a complex interplay between celebrities, the media and the audience.

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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: (Extra)Ordinary?
  Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk

Part 1: Constructing Celebrity

1 "The Big Fellow Is Dead!": Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist Martyr
  Amber Anna Colvin

2 Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in Fame
  Samita Nandy

3 Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform
  Sandra Mayer

Part 2: (Re)Envisioning Stardom

4 Oscar Wilde´s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern Culture
  Anna Fomichenko

5 Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney´s Roller Derby Scene
  Jade Alexander

6 Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of "High" and "Low" Cultures
  Mira Moshe

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