The Pursuit Of Fame
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The Pursuit Of Fame
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Author : Kyley Winfield
language : en
Publisher: Trigger Press
Release Date : 2019-07-07
The Pursuit Of Fame written by Kyley Winfield and has been published by Trigger Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-07 with categories.
Kyley Winfield grew up in a broken home, his father was absent and his mother suffered from her own demons. Troubled and miserable, Kyley found happiness in music and taught himself how to play instruments in the dark corner of his room. Once he joined a band, his rise to fame began and, as they say, the rest is history. But the spotlight wasn't all that he thought it was ...
Look At Me
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Author : Orville G Brim
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-04-23
Look At Me written by Orville G Brim and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-23 with Psychology categories.
Four million adults in the United States say that becoming famous is the most important goal in their lives. In any random sampling of one hundred American adults, two will have fame as their consuming desire. What motivates those who set fame as their priority, where did the desire come from, how does the pursuit of fame influence their lives, and how is it expressed? Based on the research of Orville Gilbert Brim, award-winning scholar in the field of child and human development, Look at Me! answers those questions. Look at Me! examines the desire to be famous in people of all ages, backgrounds, and social status and how succeeding or failing affects their lives and their personalities. It explores the implications of the pursuit of fame throughout a person's lifetime, covering the nature of the desire; fame, money, and power; the sources of fame; how people find a path to fame; the kinds of recognition sought; creating an audience; making fame last; and the resulting, often damaged, life of the fame-seeker. In our current age of celebrity fixation and reality television, Brim gives us a social-psychological perspective on the origins of this pervasive desire for fame and its effects on our lives. "Look at Me! is a fascinating in-depth study of society's obsession with fame. If you ever wondered what it's like to be famous, why fame comes to some and is sought by others, it's all here . . ." ---Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Chairman and CEO, Time Warner "In a voice filled with wisdom and insight, daring and self-reflection, Orville Brim masterfully traces the developmental origins and trajectory of fame. Look at Me! lets us see---with new eyes---the cultural priorities and obsessions that feed our individual hunger and appetites. A rare and rewarding book." ---Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University and author of Respect and The Third Chapter Orville Gilbert Brim has had a long and distinguished career. He is the former director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, former president of the Foundation for Child Development, former president of the Russell Sage Foundation, and author and coauthor of more than a dozen books about human development, intelligence, ambition, and personality. Cover image ©iStockphoto.com/susib
Virtue Valor And Vanity
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Author : Eric Burns
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 2011-04-18
Virtue Valor And Vanity written by Eric Burns and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-18 with categories.
See the Founding Fathers as you never have before.
Survive The Limelight
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Author : Z. C. Khumalo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Survive The Limelight written by Z. C. Khumalo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Celebrities categories.
Fame The Hijacking Of Reality
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Author : Justine Bateman
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2018-10-02
Fame The Hijacking Of Reality written by Justine Bateman and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Wholly riveting." --New York Times Book Review "Justine Bateman was famous before selfies replaced autographs, and bags of fan mail gave way to Twitter shitstorms. And here's the good news: she took notes along the way. Justine steps through the looking glass of her own celebrity, shatters it, and pieces together, beyond the shards and splinters, a reflection of her true self. The transformation is breathtaking. Revelatory and raucous, fascinating and frightening, Fame is a hell of a ride." --Michael J. Fox, actor, author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future "In a new book, Fame: The Hijacking of Reality, the two-time Emmy nominee takes a raw look at the culture of celebrity, reflecting on her stardom at its dizzying peak--and the 'disconcerting' feeling as it began to fade." --People Magazine A Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA) best seller, October 15–21, 2018 "As the title Fame: The Hijacking of Reality more than implies, this is a book about the complicated aspects of all things fame." --Vanity Fair "Bateman digs into the out-of-control nature of being famous, its psychological aftermath and why we all can't get enough of it." --New York Post "The Family Ties alum has written the rawest, bleakest book on fame you're ever likely to read. Bateman's close-up of the celeb experience features vivid encounters with misogyny, painful meditations on aging in Hollywood, and no shortage of theses on social media's wrath." --Entertainment Weekly "Bateman addresses the reader directly, pouring out her thoughts in a rapid-fire, conversational style. (Hunter S. Thompson is saluted in the acknowledgments.)...But her jittery delivery suits the material--the manic sugar high of celebrity and its inevitable crash. Bateman takes the reader through her entire fame cycle, from TV megastar, whose first movie role was alongside Julia Roberts, to her quieter life today as a filmmaker. She is as relentless with herself as she is with others." --Washington Post "While Bateman's new book Fame: The Hijacking of Reality (out now) touches on the former teen starlet's experience in the public eye, it's not a memoir. Far from it, in fact--it's instead an intense meditation on the nature of fame, and a glimpse into the repercussions it has on both the individual experiencing it and the society that keeps the concept alive." --Entertainment Weekly "Bateman takes an unsentimental look at the nature of celebrity worship in her first book, Fame: The Hijacking of Reality." --LA Weekly Entertainment shows, magazines, websites, and other channels continuously report the latest sightings, heartbreaks, and triumphs of the famous to a seemingly insatiable public. Millions of people go to enormous lengths to achieve Fame. Fame is woven into our lives in ways that may have been unimaginable in years past. And yet, is Fame even real? Contrary to tangible realities, Fame is one of those "realities" that we, as a society, have made. Why is that and what is it about Fame that drives us to spend so much time, money, and focus to create the framework that maintains its health? Mining decades of experience, writer, director, producer, and actress Justine Bateman writes a visceral, intimate look at the experience of Fame. Combining the internal reality-shift of the famous, theories on the public's behavior at each stage of a famous person's career, and the experiences of other famous performers, Bateman takes the reader inside and outside the emotions of Fame. The book includes twenty-four color photographs to highlight her analysis.
Author Unknown
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Author : Tom Geue
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-17
Author Unknown written by Tom Geue and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature. From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or game—a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. Author Unknown is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature. Tom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustus’s sprawling puppet mastery (Res Gestae), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovid’s Ibis), and created out of whole cloth a poetic persona and career (Phaedrus’s Fables). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as today’s. In this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time.
In Pursuit Of Fame
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Author : Lillian B. Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1992
In Pursuit Of Fame written by Lillian B. Miller and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
The catalogue of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, November 1992-February 1993. Miller's biography of American artist Peale traces the course of his artistic development, from the Englightenment principles of his father (the eminent artist Charles Willson Peale) through the British portrait tradition, French neoclassicism, and Italian Renaissance and Baroque masters, and places in context some of his more important works. With an essay by Carol Eaton Hevner on "The Paintings of Rembrandt Peale: Character and Conventions." Includes 32 color plates, 138 bandw figures. Production of the highest quality. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Fame An Essay On The Difficulties Dangers And Dissatisfaction Connected With The Seeking After The Obtaining The Approbation Of Men By A Thinking Labourer In The Field Of Evangelical Efforts
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Author : Fame
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
Fame An Essay On The Difficulties Dangers And Dissatisfaction Connected With The Seeking After The Obtaining The Approbation Of Men By A Thinking Labourer In The Field Of Evangelical Efforts written by Fame and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.
The British Controversialist
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
The British Controversialist written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Literature categories.
Georg Forster
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Author : Todd Kontje
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2022-06-29
Georg Forster written by Todd Kontje and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-29 with History categories.
Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who left behind two travelogues, a series of essays on diverse topics, and numerous letters. This in-depth look at Forster’s work and life reveals his importance for other writers of the age. Todd Kontje traces the major intellectual themes and challenges found in Forster’s writings, interweaving close textual analysis with his rich but short life. Each chapter engages with themes that reflect the current debates in eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, including changing notions of authorship, multilingualism, the representation of so-called primitive societies, Enlightenment ideas about race, and early forms of ecological thinking. As Kontje shows, Forster’s peripatetic life, malleable sense of national identity, and fluency in multiple languages contrast with the image of the solitary genius in the “age of Goethe.” In this way, Forster provides a different model of authorship and citizenship better understood in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Compellingly argued and engagingly written, this book restores Forster to his rightful place within the German literary tradition, and in so doing, it urges us to reconsider the age of Goethe as multilingual and malleable, local and cosmopolitan, dynamic and decentered. It will be welcomed by specialists in German studies and the Enlightenment.