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| Author | : Milly Williamson |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2016-10-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1509511431 |
It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved: Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media? Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.
| Author | : Matt Green |
| Publisher | : Matt Green |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Ever wondered how Michelle Rodriguez rose to stardom? A boxer, a racer, and a super-natural being. A fiery Latina with an unconventional personality and multiple run-ins with the law. These are just a few words that describe the famous actress Michelle Rodriguez. Born in 1978, by a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, she faced identity issues early on. Her Hispanic ancestry as well as her extended family of ten siblings characterized her from the beginning of her life. Her unorthodox personality was pretty obvious even from her early teenage years, when she was expelled from various schools, while at the same time she had a hard time acquiring her diploma. For more interesting facts you must read her biography. Grab your biography book now!
| Author | : Jake Halpern |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2008-01-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0547527241 |
The author of Welcome to the New World and Bad Paper discusses America’s obsession with celebrity in this 2007 investigation. Why do more people watch American Idol than the nightly news? What is it about Paris Hilton’s dating life that lures us so? Why do teenage girls—when given the option of “pressing a magic button and becoming either stronger, smarter, famous, or more beautiful” —predominantly opt for fame? In this entertaining and enlightening book, Jake Halpern explores the fascinating and often dark implications of America’s obsession with fame. He travels to a Hollywood home for aspiring child actors and enrolls in a program that trains celebrity assistants. He visits the offices of Us Weekly and a laboratory where monkeys give up food to stare at pictures of dominant members of their group. The book culminates in Halpern’s encounter with Rod Stewart’s biggest fan, a woman from Pittsburgh who nominated the singer for Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Fame Junkies reveals how psychology, technology, and even evolution conspire to make the world of red carpets and velvet ropes so enthralling to all of us on the outside looking in. Praise for Fame Junkies “An astute look at the mighty vortex of fame, which this author believes will only get more powerful.” —Kirkus Reviews “Halpern displays an evocative, insiderish style reminiscent . . . of Tom Wolfe’s when he peered into 1960s celebrity culture.” —Wall Street Journal “A critical look at Americans’ infatuation with fame and determines that fame is elusive, desirable—and also possibly addictive . . . . [An] engaging study.” —Publishers Weekly
| Author | : Joshua Gamson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520914155 |
Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit. He draws on literary and sociological theory, as well as interviews with celebrity-industry workers, to untangle the paradoxical nature of an American popular culture that is both obsessively invested in glamour and fantasy yet also aware of celebrity's transparency and commercialism. Gamson examines the contemporary "dream machine" that publicists, tabloid newspapers, journalists, and TV interviewers use to create semi-fictional icons. He finds that celebrity watchers, for whom spotting celebrities becomes a spectator sport akin to watching football or fireworks, glean their own rewards in a game that turns as often on playing with inauthenticity as on identifying with stars. Gamson also looks at the "celebritization" of politics and the complex questions it poses regarding image and reality. He makes clear that to understand American public culture, we must understand that strange, ubiquitous phenomenon, celebrity.
| Author | : Robin D. Barnes |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2010-03-24 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 019974968X |
In Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Lives, Media, and the Law, Professor Robin D. Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies. Celebrities are routinely subjected to stalking, harassment, invasion of privacy, and defamation. These occurrences are often violations of their constitutional rights. Professor Barnes addresses growing concerns about the widespread immunity from liability enjoyed by United States tabloid publishers. Outrageous Invasions chronicles these experiences and the legal battles waged by celebrities in both the United States and European Union against a press corps that continuously invades their private lives. Professor Barnes analyzes doctrinal developments in cases from the United States Supreme Court and the High Courts of Europe. These cases demonstrate that American celebrities are entitled to, but not receiving, the same protections as their European counterparts. In Outrageous Invasions, Professor Barnes explains the value of the rights of the individual to democratic nations. She notes the importance of insuring appropriate protection for freedom of expression and associational freedom through meaningful regulation in the instances when speech rights collide with equally important values such as privacy and equality.
| Author | : Christine Sneed |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2016-09-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1620406950 |
The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the choices--both personal and professional--they have so far made. In “The Prettiest Girls,” a location scout for a Hollywood film studio falls in love with a young Mexican woman who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with this older American man who takes her with him back to California. “Clear Conscience” focuses on the themes of family loyalty, divorce, motherhood, and whether “doing the right thing” is, in fact, always the right thing to do. In “Beach Vacation,” a mother realizes that her popular and coddled teenage son has become someone she has difficulty relating to, let alone loving with the same maternal fervor that once was second nature to her. The title story, “The Virginity of Famous Men,” explores family and fortune. Long intrigued by love and loneliness, Sneed leads readers through emotional landscapes both familiar and uncharted. These probing stories are explorations of the compassionate and passionate impulses that are inherent in--and often the source of--both abiding joy and serious distress in every human life.
| Author | : Ty Burr |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2013-06-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0307390845 |
With 8 Pages of Black-and-White Photographs In this captivating history of stardom, Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr traces our obsession with fame from the dawn of cinema through the age of the Internet. Why do we obsess over the individuals we come to call stars? How has both the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can now become famous simply for being famous? With brilliant insight and entertaining examples, Burr reveals the blessings and the curses of celebrity for the star and the stargazer alike. From Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, to Archie Leach (a.k.a. Cary Grant), Tom Cruise, and Julia Roberts, to such no-cal stars of today as the Kardashians and the new online celebrity, Gods Like Us is a journey through the fame game at its flashiest, most indulgent, occasionally most tragic, and ultimately it's most culturally revealing.
| Author | : Billy Georgette |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 141 |
| Release | : 2018-08-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1984550128 |
Any book about Georges Durst can hardly be accurate as volumes could be written about this multifaceted individual. I decided to undertake this work only because I feel that I owed a strong sense of debt to this man who has enriched so many of us with his creativity.
| Author | : Matt Green |
| Publisher | : Matt Green |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Ever wondered how Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez rose to stardom? Among the most beautiful women working in Hollywood today, Jordana Brewster has packed an exhilarating life into just 34 years. Having lived in four separate countries by the age of ten, become a professional working actress by the age of 15, and an American sex symbol before her college graduation, she has the experience of someone twice her age. Although she is best known as a staple of the Fast and Furious franchise alongside Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and the late Paul Walker, she has also participated in everything from high budget fashion shoots to soap operas. A boxer, a racer, and a super-natural being. A fiery Latina with an unconventional personality and multiple run-ins with the law. These are just a few words that describe the famous actress Michelle Rodriguez. Born in 1978, by a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, she faced identity issues early on. Her Hispanic ancestry as well as her extended family of ten siblings characterized her from the beginning of her life. Her unorthodox personality was pretty obvious even from her early teenage years, when she was expelled from various schools, while at the same time she had a hard time acquiring her diploma. For more interesting facts you must read the biographies. Grab Your biography books now!
| Author | : Fred Inglis |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2010-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1400834392 |
A history of celebrity from Byron to Beckham 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 written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the history of celebrity, this book explains how fame has changed over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Starting with the first modern celebrities in mid-eighteenth-century London, including Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent, the book traces the changing nature of celebrity and celebrities through the age of the Romantic hero, the European fin de siècle, and the Gilded Age in New York and Chicago. In the twentieth century, the book covers the Jazz Age, the rise of political celebrities such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, and the democratization of celebrity in the postwar decades, as actors, rock stars, and sports heroes became the leading celebrities. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, Inglis considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what—and what not—to do. This book will interest anyone who is curious about the history that lies behind one of the great preoccupations of our lives. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
