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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This work questions the cultural forces behind the need to become endlessly embroiled with the construction and collapse of celebrities. ISBN 0816627258 9780816627257 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0816627258, ISBN13: 9780816627257, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota] Softcover Paperback. The celebrity is an ambiguous figure in contemporary culture. Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, stars represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. They are a peculiar form of public subjectivity that negotiates the tension between a democratic culture of access and a consumer capitalist culture of excess. Celebrity and Power examines this dynamic, questioning the cultural forces behind our need to become endlessly embroiled with the construction and collapse of celebrities.Through detailed analysis of figures from Tom Cruise to Oprah Winfrey to the commercial pop music sensation New Kids on the Block, author and cultural critic P. David Marshall investigates the general publics desire to associate with celebrity. He examines various kinds of stars, questioning the needs each type fulfills in our lives and relating these needs to particular entertainment media. Marshall asks why enigmatic, distant stars populate the silver screen while television constructs approachable everyman figures and popular music features audience-identified celebrity personalities. He looks at the significance of stars who amass cultlike followings as well as those who appear to prompt outright rejection.Celebrity and Power identifies the forces that have enveloped the development of democratic culture and their ...

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ISBN10: 0816627258, ISBN13: 9780816627257, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press 1997-02-15, Minneapolis, Minn. |London] Softcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 0816627258, ISBN13: 9780816627257, [publisher: University of Minnesota Press 1997-02-15, Minneapolis, Minn. |London] Softcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 0816627258, ISBN13: 9780816627257, [publisher: PLYMBRIDGE DISTRIBUTORS LTD Feb 1997] Softcover Neuware - The author examines the various kinds of stars, questioning the needs each type fulfills in our lives and relating these needs to particular entertainment media.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1997]