Seeing Stars
Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
Seeing Stars 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,...
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Seeing Stars 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Seeing Stars “
PrefaceWho Wants to be a Celebrity?A Star is Born: Constructing Celebrity Star Power: The Celebrity as Spectacle Star Spotting: Celebrity and ScandalWith Stars in our Eyes: Consuming CelebrityConclusion: The New Cool of Celebrity CultureBibliographyIndex
Autoren-Porträt
Pramod K Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His work in postcolonial studies includes English Writing and India, 1600-1920:Colonizing Aesthetics (2008), Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008), The Great Uprising: India, 1857 (2007), The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar (2007) and The Penguin 1857 Reader (2007). His interests in cultural studies include superheroes, consumer culture, 'cool', posthumanism and new media cultures, and his work here includes An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006), Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004), and a book on literary and cultural theory (Literary Theory Today, 2002), besides numerous essays on cyberculture and, more recently, on human rights narratives. Among forthcoming books are a study of new media and cyberculture, postcolonialism, a history of the Raj and an edited collection on English life in India.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 212 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sage,
- ISBN-10: 8178299070
- ISBN-13: 9788178299075
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.01.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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This is a valuable book, and would be of interest to scholars and lay readers alike.
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