Name: Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (en Inglés)
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Author: Joshua Gamson
ISBN: 9780520083530

portada Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Joshua Gamson

Año

1994

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

270

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.95

ISBN

0520083539

ISBN13

9780520083530

N° edición

21609th

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx - c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia de américa

Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (en Inglés)

Joshua Gamson (Autor) · University Of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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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analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit.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.