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Celebrity Studies: Book Review – The death and resurrection of Elvis Presley

The death and resurrection of Elvis Presley, by Ted Harrison, London, Reaktion Books, 2016, 272 pp., £16.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78-023637-7

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The New European: The biggest European band you’ve never heard of

Boy bands have traditionally been an Anglophone affair. But there’s one massive European group which has got in on the act – and its cultish fans are as extreme as any others in their devotion. Sophia L Deboick on the remarkable rise and – relative – fall of Tokio Hotel

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The New European: All shook up – the forgotten story of the Cold War’s Red Elvis

From all-American star to the Eastern bloc’s greatest celebrity, Dean Reed’s was a truly extraordinary career. Here, Sophia Deboick recounts his life and death, a tragic tale of celebrity and history

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Talk: ‘I’m just the space cadet, he’s the commander’ – Reflecting on Bowie Fandom

Talk given at Club Critical Theory seminar, following a screening of Cracked Actor, as part of Strange, Mad Celebration, a Bowie all-dayer held at The Railway, Southend-on-Sea on 19th June

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Talk: ‘That is walking on hallowed ground’ – Place, Pilgrimage, Identity and Otherness in South Essex Fan Cults

Talk given at Club Critical Theory, Southend-on-Sea, on 4th December, as part of the Theorizing the Other: Migration and Cultural Tourism event, chaired by Andrew Branch

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Lecture: ‘There’s no doubt – I’m one of the devout’: Fandom and Popular Cults, Sacred and Secular

Guest lecture given on COM 5218 Celebrity and Fan Culture module, Richmond American International University, London, on 16th October, at the invitation of Associate Professor of Communication, Dr Fred Vermorel

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Blog: An Angel in the Trenches, A Bestseller in the Shops – Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Commercial Religion and the First World War

The First World War saw some of the richest (and kitschest) pieces of material devotional culture produced by the Carmel of Lisieux

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Lecture: ‘There’s no doubt – I’m one of the devout’: Fandom and Popular Cults, Sacred and Secular

Guest lecture given on COM 5218 Celebrity and Fan Culture module, Richmond American International University, London, on 24th October, at the invitation of Associate Professor of Communication, Dr Fred Vermorel

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The Quietus: REVIEW – Dr Feelgood Exhibition/ Lee Brilleaux Memorial Walk

Sophia Deboick heads to Canvey Island to embark on the annual walk in memory of the band’s late frontman and take in the new exhibition of Dr Feelgood paraphernalia

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Blog: ‘I’ll drink to that’ – Tallinn’s Black Celebration of Depeche Mode

The winding medieval streets of Estonia’s capital hold a bit of a surprise for the traveller who hasn’t done their top bars research in advance

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