ISBN:
9780816695621
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (344 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Celebrity and Power : Fame in Contemporary Culture
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Celebrities -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Fame -- Social aspects -- United States
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Celebrities -- History -- 21st century
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Fame -- Social aspects
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Celebrities ; History ; 21st century
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Celebrities ; United States ; History ; 21st century
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Fame ; Social aspects ; United States
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Fame ; Social aspects
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Popular culture ; United States ; History ; 21st century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Celebrity in the Digital Era: A New Public Intimacy; Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture; Preface to the Original Edition; Part I; 1. Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individual; 2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience; 3. Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power; Part II; 4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity; 5. Televisions Construction of the Celebrity
Description / Table of Contents:
6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity7. The System of Celebrity; Part III; 8. 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; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
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