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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.
The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished.
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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
Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers
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.
Investigates the world of celebrity.
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.
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.