TY  - BOOK
AU  - Douglas,Susan J.
AU  - McDonnell,Andrea
TI  - Celebrity: A History of Fame 
T2  - Critical Cultural Communication
SN  - 9781479852437
AV  - HM1176 .D68 2019
U1  - 302/.13 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Celebrities
KW  - Fame
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Social influence
KW  - Social status
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alexander the Great
KW  - Astor Place riots
KW  - Instafame
KW  - King Tut
KW  - Louis XIV
KW  - P.T. Barnum
KW  - back-stage work
KW  - carte de visite
KW  - celeactors
KW  - celebrity culture
KW  - celebrity gossip magazines
KW  - close-up
KW  - commodification
KW  - crooning
KW  - cross-platform promotion
KW  - cultural studies
KW  - curation
KW  - demotic fame
KW  - enunciative productivity
KW  - fan magazines
KW  - fireside chats
KW  - gossip
KW  - idols of destruction
KW  - imagined community
KW  - immortality
KW  - jazz age
KW  - manufactured celebrity
KW  - mass culture
KW  - mass media
KW  - micro-celebrity
KW  - minstrelsy
KW  - parasocial relationship
KW  - penny press
KW  - personality system
KW  - picture personality
KW  - political celebrity
KW  - pop idols
KW  - portraiture
KW  - printing
KW  - public sphere
KW  - reality television
KW  - side-stage performance
KW  - social media
KW  - stardom
KW  - studio system
KW  - synergy
KW  - tabloidization
KW  - talk shows
KW  - vaudeville
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first centuryToday, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. 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. Using numerous precedent-setting examples spanning more than one hundred years of media history, Douglas and McDonnell trace the dynamic relationship between celebrity and the technologies of mass communication that have shaped the nature of fame in the United States.Revealing how televised music fanned a worldwide phenomenon called "Beatlemania" and how Kim Kardashian broke the internet, Douglas and McDonnell also show how the media has shaped both the lives of the famous and the nature of the spotlight itself. Celebrity examines the production, circulation, and effects of celebrity culture to consider the impact of stars from Shirley Temple to Muhammad Ali to the homegrown star made possible by your Instagram feed. It maps ever-evolving media technologies as they adeptly interweave the lives of the rich and famous into ours: from newspapers and photography in the nineteenth century, to the twentieth century's radio, cinema, and television, up to the revolutionary impact of the internet and social media.Today, mass media relies upon an ever-changing cast of celebrities to grab our attention and money, and new stars are conquering new platforms to build their adoring audiences and enhance their images. In the era of YouTube, Snapchat, and reality television, fame may be fleeting, but its impact on society is profound and lasting
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