Understanding 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
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9780761941675, 9780761941682, 9781412933698, 9781446279953, 0761941673, 0761941681, 1412933692, 1446279952
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1
Understanding Celebrity; Chapter 2
The Economy of Celebrity; Chapter 3
Manufacturing Celebrity; Chapter 4
Celcbrity, the Tabloid and the Democratic Public Sphere; Chapter 5
The Cultural Function of Celebrity; Chapter 6
Consuming Celebrity; Chapter 7
Conclusion: Celebrity and Public Culture Today; References; Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010