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The Drama of Celebrity (Hardcover)
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The Drama of Celebrity (Hardcover)
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A bold new account of how celebrity works Why do so many people
care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star?
What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities
ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? In this
fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges
everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame.
Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone
cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes.
Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all
compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell
about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as
endless as it is unpredictable. Drawing on scrapbooks, personal
diaries, and vintage fan mail, Marcus traces celebrity culture back
to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found
themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors
such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), as famous in her
day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a
coffin, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius, Bernhardt became a
global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era's most
innovative media and technologies: the popular press, commercial
photography, and speedy new forms of travel. Whether you love
celebrity culture or hate it, The Drama of Celebrity will change
how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern
times.
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