Understanding CelebritySAGE Publications, 9. lip 2004. - Broj stranica: 160 `Graeme Turner is one of the leading figures in cultural studies today. When his gaze turns to celebrity, the result is a readable and compelling account of this most perplexing and infuriating of modern phenomena. Read on!' - Toby Miller, New York University We cannot escape celebrity culture: it is everywhere. So just what is the cultural function of celebrity? This is the first comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of celebrity from within cultural and media studies. The pervasive influence of contemporary celebrity, and the cultures it produces, has been widely noticed. Earlier studies, though, have tended to focus on the consumption of celebrity or on particular locations of celebrity - Hollywood, or the sports industries for instance. This book presents a broad survey across all media as well as a new synthesis of theoretical positions, that will be welcomed by all students of media and cultural studies. Among its attributes are the following: -It provides an overview and evaluation of the key debates surrounding the definition of celebrity, its history, and its social and cultural function. -It examines the `celebrity industries': the PR and publicity structures that manufacture celebrity. -It looks at the cultural processes through which celebrity is consumed. -It draws examples from the full range of contemporary media - film, television, newspapers, magazines and the web. |
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... gossip enable this : the ' pleasurable freedom of celebrity gossip ' , he says , is built ' precisely on its freedom from but resemblance to truth ' ( 1994 : 177 ) . The attraction of this material does not depend on whether or not it ...
... gossip seemed to provide one of the lost ingre- dients of the former for the latter : a common frame of reference . In gossip everyone was treated as a known quantity ; otherwise the gossip was meaning- less . In gossip one could create ...
... gossip ' can ' serve to enlarge the reader's private world , and to create moral community ' ( 1995 : 120 ) . Hermes ' comments emanate from a research project during which she interviewed readers of women's celebrity gossip magazines ...
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The spread of celebrity culture | 15 |
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