Celebrity and Power Fame and Contemporary Culture

Name: Celebrity and Power Fame and Contemporary Culture
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ISBN: 9780816627257

ISBN-10: 0816627258

ISBN-13: 9780816627257

Edition: 1997

Authors: P. David Marshall

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This book examines the cultural forces behind our need to become endlessly embroiled with the construction and collapse of celebrities.

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 2/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individual



Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience



Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power



The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity



Television's Construction of the Celebrity



The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity



The System of Celebrity



The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture


Conclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity


Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture


Notes


Index