Celebrity and Power : Fame in Contemporary Culture

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Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new publ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Marshall, P. David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Popular culture.
Fame > Social aspects.
Celebrities.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Celebrites > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Popular culture > United States > History > 21st century.
Celebrities > History > 21st century.
Fame > Social aspects > United States.
Celebrities > United States > History > 21st century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Celebrity in the Digital Era : A New Public Intimacy
  • Celebrity and Power : Fame in Contemporary Culture
  • Preface to the Original Edition
  • Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individual
  • Conceptualizing the Collective : The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience
  • Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power
  • The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity
  • Television's Construction of the Celebrity
  • The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity : The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity
  • The System of Celebrity
  • The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture
  • Conclusion : Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity
  • Coda : George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture.

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