Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies Elliott Anthony
Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies Elliott Anthony Ours is the age of celebrity. But there is also a darker side. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the…
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Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies Elliott Anthony
Ours is the age of celebrity. But there is also a darker side. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the twenty-first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy seductions.
Why, as a society, are we held in thrall to celebrity? Celebrity culture is littered from end to end with addictions, pathologies, neuroses, even suicides. What is the power of celebrity in a world of increasing consumerism, individualism and globalization?Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies, edited by acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott, offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of celebrity in the social sciences and humanities, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for celebrity studies.
The key theories of celebrity, ranging from classical sociological accounts to critical theory, and from media studies