ENGLISH

Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society, and Celebrity Culture

By Pramod K. Nayar

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications
Year
2009
ISBN
8178299070, 9788178299075
LCC
HM621 .N39 2009
Google Books ID
2f-DPQAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL22685143M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
666 kB (682456 bytes)
Pages
211\211
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Celebrity Culture explores the ways in which celebrities are manufactured , how they establish their hold on the public imagination, and how social responses enable them to be what they are. Celebrity culture is marked by three main responses: adulation, identification, and emulation. The book proposes that these responses are generated as a result of media constructions of celebrities. Therefore, celebrity culture is something that must be studied as a consequence of new forms of media representation and mass culture. The book s aim is to explore this phenomenon, especially from the 1990s. It is intended as a popular introduction to celebrity culture and a new society of spectacle that is visible in India today through a rigorous analyses of a range of media sources.

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