Understanding Celebrity - Rilegato

Turner, Graeme

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ISBN 10: 0761941673 ISBN 13: 9780761941675

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

`Graeme Turner is one of the leading figures in cultural studies today. When his gaze turns to celebrity, the result is a readable and compelling

account of this most perplexing and infuriating of modern phenomena. Read on!' - Toby Miller, New York University

We cannot escape celebrity culture: it is everywhere. So just what is the cultural function of celebrity?

This is the first comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of celebrity from within cultural and media studies. The pervasive influence of contemporary celebrity, and the cultures it produces, has been widely noticed. Earlier studies, though, have tended to focus on the consumption of celebrity or on particular locations of celebrity - Hollywood, or the sports industries for instance. This book presents a broad survey across all media as well as a new synthesis of theoretical positions, that will be welcomed by all students of media and cultural studies. Among its attributes are the following:

-It provides an overview and evaluation of the key debates surrounding the definition of celebrity, its history, and its social and cultural function.

-It examines the `celebrity industries': the PR and publicity structures that manufacture celebrity.

-It looks at the cultural processes through which celebrity is consumed.

-It draws examples from the full range of contemporary media - film, television, newspapers, magazines and the web.

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Recensione:

"Graeme Turner is a renowned cultural studies scholar and this book on celebrity demonstrates reasons for he renown. Turner's book is very thorough and comprehensive and should be included on any student reading list for courses that look at celebrity. Turner includes an extensive bibliography which will assist those who are beginning work on celebrity and this most readable book will help to promote further debate on this fascinating area." (Maria Way A Quarterly Review of Communication Research 2006-06-09)

L'autore:

Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0761941673
• ISBN 13: 9780761941675
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 148