authors:subjects:- Civilization, Modern
- Popular culture
- Celebrities
- Popular culture -- United States
- Celebrities -- United States.
- Fame -- Social aspects -- United States.
publishers:ISBN:- 0415337917 :
- 0415337925 (alk. paper)
description:notes:- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Acknowledgements Editor's Introduction Section One: Celebrity and Modernity: The Historical Pattern of Celebrity Section Introduction 1. Man as Actor "Richard Sennett" 2. The Longing of Alexander "Leo Braudy" 3. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority and The Nature of Charismatic Authority and its Routinization "Max Weber "4. From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo-event "Daniel Boorstin" 5. The Discourse on Acting "Richard de Cordova "6. The Powerless Elite: Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars "Francesco Alberoni "7. The triumph of Mass Idols "Leo Lowenthal "8. Stars as Images "Richard Dyer "Section Two: The Textual and the ExtraTextual Dimensions of the Public Persona Section Introduction 9. Television's Personality System "John Langer "10. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: the Construction of Distinctive Authenticity "P. David Marshall "11. Is Straight the New Queer? David Beckham and the Dialectics of Celebrity "Momin Rahman "12. Articulating Stardom "Barry King "13. Feminine Fascinations "Jackie Stacey "14. Australian Idol and the Attention Economy "Charles Fairchild "15. Reading Gossip Magazines: the Imagined Communities of 'Gossip' and 'Camp' "Joke Hermes "Section Three: Ascribed Celebrity: the Transformed public sphere Section Introduction -- 16. Intimately Intertwined in the most public way: Celebrity and Journalism "P. David Marshall" 17. The Reign of Hype: The contemporary (Literary) Star System "Joe Moran "18. America's new Son: Tiger Woods and America's multiculturalism "C.L. Cole and David L. Andrews "19. The Celebrity Politician "John Street "20. Academostars: Name Recognition "Jeffrey Williams "21. Celebrity and Religion "Chris Rojek "22. Phantasmagoric Labor: The New economics of self-presentation "Ernest Sternberg "Section Four: Transgression: Scandal, Notoriety and Infamy Section Introduction 23. Investigating the Serial Killer: The Seeking of Origins "Richard Tithecott "24. [Don't] l.
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