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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400834396
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035 _a(OCoLC)649913135
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082 0 4 _a305.5/2
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aInglis, Fred
_eautore
245 1 2 _aA Short History of Celebrity /
_cFred Inglis.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (328 p.) :
_b14 halftones.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tPart I. Fame and Feeling --
_tChapter 1. The Performance of Celebrity --
_tChapter 2. A Very Short History of the Feelings --
_tPart II. The Rise of Celebrity: A Three-Part Invention --
_tChapter 3. The London-Brighton Road, 1760-1820 --
_tChapter 4. Paris: Haute Couture and the Painting of Modern Life --
_tChapter 5. New York and Chicago: Robber Barons and the Gossip Column, 1880-1910 --
_tPart III. The Past in the Present --
_tChapter 6. The Geography of Recognition: Celebrity on Its Holidays --
_tChapter 7. The Great Dictators --
_tChapter 8. The Stars Look Down: The Democratisation of Celebrity --
_tChapter 9. From Each According to His Ability: Sport, Rock, Fashion, and the Self --
_tChapter 10. Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves --
_tEnvoi. Cherishing Citizens --
_tNotes --
_tIllustrations --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aLove it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the history of celebrity, this book explains how fame has changed over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Starting with the first modern celebrities in mid-eighteenth-century London, including Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent, the book traces the changing nature of celebrity and celebrities through the age of the Romantic hero, the European fin de siècle, and the Gilded Age in New York and Chicago. In the twentieth century, the book covers the Jazz Age, the rise of political celebrities such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, and the democratization of celebrity in the postwar decades, as actors, rock stars, and sports heroes became the leading celebrities. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, Inglis considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what--and what not--to do. This book will interest anyone who is curious about the history that lies behind one of the great preoccupations of our lives.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Social History.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834396
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