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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Marshall, P. David
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public's desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9781452944012

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