Editorial: introduction
Editorial: introduction
On 26 November 2019, at the height of the bitterly fought General Election campaign which saw a landslide win for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, Hugh Grant tweeted: ‘Young people – today is your last chance. Register to vote or I will make another enchanting romantic comedy. #registertovote TACTICALLY’. (Grant Citation2019). The quip neatly encapsulates the actor’s career trajectory, and underlines some of the key tensions and facets within his star persona that have drawn our interest in this issue: the trademark self-deprecation (with its strong connection to Englishness – more on this below), and the simultaneous disavowal and embracing of the genre he is most associated with in favour of a higher-brow political engagement
celebrity, Hugh Grant, masculinity, media, performance, stardom
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Guilluy, Alice
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Sammartino, Eleonora
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13 February 2023
Guilluy, Alice
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Sammartino, Eleonora
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Abstract
On 26 November 2019, at the height of the bitterly fought General Election campaign which saw a landslide win for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, Hugh Grant tweeted: ‘Young people – today is your last chance. Register to vote or I will make another enchanting romantic comedy. #registertovote TACTICALLY’. (Grant Citation2019). The quip neatly encapsulates the actor’s career trajectory, and underlines some of the key tensions and facets within his star persona that have drawn our interest in this issue: the trademark self-deprecation (with its strong connection to Englishness – more on this below), and the simultaneous disavowal and embracing of the genre he is most associated with in favour of a higher-brow political engagement
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Published date: 13 February 2023
Keywords:
celebrity, Hugh Grant, masculinity, media, performance, stardom
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/477851
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Alice Guilluy
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Eleonora Sammartino
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