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Celebrity and power: fame in contemporary culture

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Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public's desire to associate with celebrity and addresses

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306.0973 MAR c

Publisher

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press., 2014

Collation

lii, 290 pages ; 23 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780816695621

Classification

306.0973

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Edition

2nd ed

Subject(s)

United States
21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Fame
ART / Popular Culture

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