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Celebrity - Capitalism and the Making of Fame (Paperback)
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Celebrity - Capitalism and the Making of Fame (Paperback)
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Loot Price R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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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.
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