Celebrity Culture and the American Dream Stardom and Social Mobility

Name: Celebrity Culture and the American Dream Stardom and Social Mobility
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ISBN: 9780415886796

ISBN-10: 0415886791

ISBN-13: 9780415886796

Edition: 2011

Authors: Karen Sternheimer

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Using examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present, Celebrity Culture and the American Dream considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today. Equally important, the book explains how and why the story of Hollywood celebrities matters, sociologically speaking, to an understanding of American society, to the changing nature of the American Dream, and to the relation between class and culture. This book: Explores the relationship between celebrity culture, consumption, class, and social mobilityDiscusses social changes pertaining to class, gender, marriage and divorce, and raceIncludes numerous pictures…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Figures


Preface


Acknowledgments



The American Dream: Celebrity, Class, and Social Mobility



Beyond Subsistence: The Rise of the Middle Class in the Twentieth Century



Prosperity and Wealth Arrive: Boom Times and Women's Suffrage in the 1920s



Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps: Personal Failure and the Great Depression



We're All in This Together: Collectivism and World War II



Suburban Utopia: The Postwar Middle-Class Fantasy



Is That All There Is? Challenging the Suburban Fantasy in the Sixties and Seventies



Massive Wealth as Moral Reward: The Reagan Revolution and Individualism



Success Just for Being You: Opportunity in the Internet Age


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index