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Claims To Fame
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Author : Joshua Gamson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Claims To Fame written by Joshua Gamson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Social Science categories.
Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit. He draws on literary and sociological theory, as well as interviews with celebrity-industry workers, to untangle the paradoxical nature of an American popular culture that is both obsessively invested in glamour and fantasy yet also aware of celebrity's transparency and commercialism. Gamson examines the contemporary "dream machine" that publicists, tabloid newspapers, journalists, and TV interviewers use to create semi-fictional icons. He finds that celebrity watchers, for whom spotting celebrities becomes a spectator sport akin to watching football or fireworks, glean their own rewards in a game that turns as often on playing with inauthenticity as on identifying with stars. Gamson also looks at the "celebritization" of politics and the complex questions it poses regarding image and reality. He makes clear that to understand American public culture, we must understand that strange, ubiquitous phenomenon, celebrity.
Claim To Fame
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Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-11-02
Claim To Fame written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Lindsay, a former child star who suffered a nervous breakdown after developing the ability to hear what anyone says about her, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
Claims To Fame
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Author : Carol Einstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Claims To Fame written by Carol Einstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
An architect, a physician, an umpire, an aviator, and a cartoonist: these are just a few of the careers represented in this book of short biographies.
Claims To Fame
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Author : Carol Einstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Claims To Fame written by Carol Einstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Reading comprehension categories.
Alexander The Great And His Claim To Fame
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Author : Phil Robins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Alexander The Great And His Claim To Fame written by Phil Robins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Generals categories.
The most infamous of conquerors gets the Horribly Famous treatment. Readers can find out everything about Alexander that other books won't tell them, including how he once took on an army of 326 elephants, how he told everyone he was a god, and that his best friend was actually his horse, Bucephalus.
Lame Claims To Fame
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Author : Patrick Witton
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
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Lame Claims To Fame written by Patrick Witton and has been published by Hardie Grant Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Funny, reverential and downright silly, this book revels in and runs from the cult of celebrity. Within its pages you can discover which mere mortal pushed Meg Ryan into a shoe stand at Prada; cooked a chicken Caesar salad for Nicholas Cage; and bumped Sandra Sully's car (and was told to keep it 'mum'). It's full of real encounters with unreal people. This irresistible stocking filler comes fully illustrated with special sections including Lame Claims to Warnie, Lame Claims to Aussie Rock and Lame Claims to Australian Prime Ministers in Lifts.
The Lancaster
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Author : Norman Franks
language : en
Publisher: Arms & Armour
Release Date : 1996-03-01
The Lancaster written by Norman Franks and has been published by Arms & Armour this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Lancaster (Bomber) categories.
Illusions Of Immortality
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Author : David Giles
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Illusions Of Immortality written by David Giles and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Psychology categories.
What drives people to crave fame and celebrity? How does fame affect people psychologically? These issues are frequently discussed by the media but up till now psychologists have shied away from an academic away from an academic investigation of the phenomenon of fame. In this lively, eclectic book David Giles examines fame and celebrity from a variety of perspectives. He argues that fame should be seen as a process rather than a state of being, and that 'celebrity' has largely emerged through the technological developments of the last 150 years. Part of our problem in dealing with celebrities, and the problem celebrities have dealing with the public, is that the social conditions produced by the explosion in mass communications have irrevocably altered the way we live. However we know little about many of the phenomena these conditions have produced - such as the 'parasocial interaction' between television viewers and media characters, and the quasi-religious activity of 'fans'. Perhaps the biggest single dilemma for celebrities is the fact that the vehicle that creates fame for them - the media - is also their tormentor. To address these questions, David Giles draws on research from psychology, sociology, media and communications studies, history and anthropology - as well as his own experiences as a music journalist in the 1980s. He argues that the history of fame is inextricably linked to the emergence of the individual self as a central theme of Western culture, and considers how the desire for authenticity, as well as individual privacy, have created anxieties for celebrities which are best understood in their historical and cultural context.
Claims To Fame
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Author : Carol Einstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Claims To Fame written by Carol Einstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This guide contains answers to the exercise questions as well as four sample student responses to the stories. The author has rated the responses and has included the criteria she used to judge the student work.
Celebrity
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Author : Andrea McDonnell
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-03-26
Celebrity written by Andrea McDonnell and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-26 with Social Science categories.
The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century Today, 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.