It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved:
Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media?
Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.
Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media?
Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.
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Table des matières
ContentsAcknowledgements
Chapter One: What is Celebrity? The Changing Character of Fame
Chapter Two: Celebrity and the Theatre: modernity and commercial culture
Chapter Three: Celebrity and the industrialisation of cultural production: the case of the mass press and the cinema
Chapter Four: Celebrity and News
Chapter Five: Ordinary Celebrity
Chapter Six: Social media and celebrity: the internet of ?self?
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Milly Williamson is a senior lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University. She has published work on television fan cultures, television celebrity, horror, gender and consumption.Achetez cet ebook et obtenez-en 1 de plus GRATUITEMENT !
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 216 ● ISBN 9781509511433 ● Taille du fichier 0.4 MB ● Maison d’édition John Wiley & Sons ● Publié 2016 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5004057 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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