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Lindsay, a former child star who suffered a nervous breakdown after developing the ability to hear what anyone says about her, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416939180
Lindsay, a former child star who suffered a nervous breakdown after developing the ability to hear what anyone says about her, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
Author : Joshua Gamson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : 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analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit.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 : Mathieu Deflem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137584688
This book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspective of fame as a commodity, Mathieu Deflem offers an empirical examination of the social conditions that informed Lady Gaga’s rise to fame. The book delves into topics such as the marketing of Lady Gaga; the legal issues that have dogged her career; the media; her audience; her activism; issues of sex, gender, and sexuality; and Lady Gaga’s unique artistry. By training a spotlight on this singular pop icon, Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame invites readers to consider the nature of stardom in an age of celebrity.
Author : Phil Robins
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Generals
ISBN : 9781407111735
The most infamous of conquerors gets the Horribly Famous treatment. Readers can find out everything about Alexander that other books won't tell them, including how he once took on an army of 326 elephants, how he told everyone he was a god, and that his best friend was actually his horse, Bucephalus.
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
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ISBN : 9780812471120
Author : Brian M. Lavelle
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2005-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0472114247
Challenges long-accepted notions about the relationship between early Athenian tyranny and democracy
Author : Milly Williamson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : 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 : Brenda M. James
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Child caregivers
ISBN : 9780754110705
Author : Shay Stone
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2018-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781719448017
Colin Riley's past wasn't a pretty one. He'd worked hard to bury his demons. So when he crossed paths with Alexandra Vaughn, the daughter of the man who almost destroyed his life, he should have run. But he didn't. Instead, like an idiot, he fell in love. Alex was smart, talented, beautiful, and one of the most infuriating women Colin had ever met. From the second he laid eyes on her, he knew he'd do anything to make her his. Why else would he let her trick him into starring in some play? It was just supposed to be a way to get close to her. How could he have known saying yes to the role would change their lives forever? But that's what happens when Richard Steed - the most sought-after agent in Hollywood swoops in promising to make all their dreams come true. It doesn't take long before the slick agent's true intentions become known turning him into their worst nightmare. With a ghost from the past haunting them and an agent hell-bent on tearing them apart, is there any way Colin and Alex can survive The Rise to Fame?
Author : David C. Giles
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1787542122
David Giles examines digital culture’s impact on established celebrities from traditional media while charting the rise of new forms of celebrity such as vloggers and influencers, offering novel insights on topics such as parasocial relationships, micro-celebrity, memes and celetoids.