Celebrity

  • Celebrity: A History of Fame
    By Susan J. Douglas, Andrea McDonnell

    While television, in its early years, first reactivated minstrelsy, with Beulah (a black maid) and Amos 'n' Andy, and then, after protests against such stereotypes, ignored African Americans altogether (with the exception of a few ...

  • Celebrity
    By Sean Redmond

    In Justin Timberlake's promotional short film for his new album, Man of the Woods (2018), we see him return to his native Canada to live freely in the mountains, streams and forests that we are told populated his childhood, which allows ...

  • Celebrity
    By Chris Rojek

    Max Weber , a notable critic of unalloyed Subjectivism , none the less devised the concept of charisma to apply to special or unique qualities attributed to the individual . ? He argued that charismatic authority is , by definition ...

  • Celebrity
    By Terry O'Neill, AA Gill

    The range of Terry O'Neill's celebrity portraits is incredible. From Audrey Hepburn to Naomi Campbell, from Frank Sinatra to Kate Moss - this is a true celebration of true celebrity.

  • Celebrity: Capitalism and the Making of Fame
    By Milly Williamson

    The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished.

  • Celebrity
    By Sean Redmond

    The book builds a critical story about celebrity that takes in image production, branding and marketing, the political economy of celebrity, celebrity in the everyday, identity politics, structures of feeling and narratives of damage, and ...

  • Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over the World and why We Need an Exit Strategy
    By Marina Hyde

    Does the word celebrity sound like a fifth horseman of the apocalypse? Then this book is for you- an invaluable primer to the celebriscape, a world expanding twice as fast as the universe it inhabits.

  • Celebrity
    By Zuzana Bubílková

    Celebrity

  • Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers
    By James Monaco

    Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers

  • Celebrity
    By Chris Rojek

    In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a common reference point.

  • Celebrity
    By Jonathan Rutherford

    Investigates the world of celebrity.

  • Celebrity: A History of Fame
    By Susan J. Douglas, Andrea McDonnell

    Redmond, “Intimate Fame Everywhere,” 35. Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 2–3, 7. Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 47–48. Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place, 48. Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 7. Burns, Celeb 2.0, 50.

  • Celebrity: A History of Fame
    By Susan J. Douglas, Andrea McDonnell

    This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation of fame. Celebrity explores this revolution and its often under-estimated impact on American culture.