Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors discuss Brad Pitt's rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina, Angelina Jolie's recent casting controversy, and Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest. Star brand building through social media and how that translates to the Broadway stage are also examined, as well as how the privacy laws demanded by celebrities can infringe on their own audience's First Amendment rights.

Life, death and the stars -- Looking to the starchitects : the rhetorical mode of celebrity in disaster recovery -- Star brand power and the Broadway stage : images, and attributes influencing perceptions -- "Save your life! do what I post!" : social learning through celebrity health advocacy on social media -- "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV" : bad celebrity health advice and why we follow it -- Hunger games for orphans? : Angelina Jolie and the limits of celebrity humanitarianism -- Colin Kaepernick, civil disobedience and self-sacrificial leadership -- Celebrity suicide : how responsible reporting prevents further tragedy -- The naked truth: postfeminism in media discourse in response to the Kardashians' nude magazine images -- How to be a postfeminist : a critical discourse analysis of celebrity culture, sexual messages, and feminism in Amber Rose's how to be a bad bitch -- Sex, likes and instagram: celebrity self presentation on instagram -- Celebrities and the first amendment.