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Moment of extreme joy on image cropped out turns into something else as if these woman are about to experience something horrible
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Reference to Elisabeth Bronfen on the Diva: Diva vs Celebrity - the celebrity known through images through media (photo and TV), she embodies arbitariness and exchangebility of celebrities.
Reference to Elisabeth Bronfen on the Diva: Diva vs Celebrity - the celebrity known through images through media (photo and TV), she embodies arbitariness and exchangebility of celebrities. The diva embodies great passions and oscilates between symbolic and real body.
Die Diva verkörpert große Leidenschaften und schillert zwischen symbolischem und realem Körper (stereotypen/partikularen), sich daran aufreibend.





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Notes on Beauty Queens

Ambivalence:

Raw emotions / Staged emotions

Attracted / Repelled

Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance

Repressive system

Candidates have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc

Moment of extreme joy on image cropped out turns into something else as if these woman are about to experience something horrible

Reference to Elisabeth Bronfen on the Diva: Diva vs Celebrity - the celebrity known through images through media (photo and TV), she embodies arbitariness and exchangebility of celebrities. The diva embodies great passions and oscilates between symbolic and real body.


Reading List from University of Amsterdam

Stanford entries: Happiness

Stanford entries: Well-Being

Stanford entries: Pleasure

Hedonism

Altruism and Group Selection