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A Short History of Celebrity /

Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly writ...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Inglis, Fred (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • The performance of celebrity
  • A very short history of the feelings
  • The London-Brighton road (1760-1820)
  • Paris: haute couture and the painting of modern life
  • New York and Chicago: robber barons and the gossip column, 1880-1910
  • The geography of recognition: celebrity on its holidays
  • The great dictators
  • The stars look down: the democratisation of celebrity
  • From each according to his ability: sport, rock, fashion, and the self
  • Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves
  • Envoi: Cherishing citizens.