Claims to fame : celebrity in contemporary America / Joshua Gamson
- Bib ID:
- 3701882
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- Author:
- Gamson, Joshua, 1962-
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994
- xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0520083520
- 0520083539
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Explaining Angelyne
- 1. The Great and the Gifted: Celebrity in the Early Twentieth Century
- 2. The Name and the Product: Late Twentieth-Century Celebrity
- 3. Industrial-Strength Celebrity
- 4. The Negotiated Celebration
- 5. Props, Cues, and the Advantages of Not Knowing: Audiences in the World of Celebrity Production
- 6. Hunting, Sporting, and the Willing Audience: The Celebrity-Watching Tourist Circuit
- 7. Can't Beat the Real Thing: Production Awareness and the Problem of Authenticity
- 8. Believing Games
- Conclusion: Celebrity, Democracy, Power, and Play
- Appendix: Theoretical and Methodological Notes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.
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- 1994
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