Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814258804ISBN-10:814258808UPC:9780814258804Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Popular CultureSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SC0BE7GCPE
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity
Often dismissed as trivial or even "trash," celebrity culture offers a unique way of considering what it means to be human. In Mapping the Stars, Claire Sisco King shows how close analysis of the complex and sometimes contradictory forms of celebrity culture can challenge dominant ideas about selfhood. In particular, as a formation that develops across time, mediums, and texts, celebrity is...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814258804ISBN-10:814258808UPC:9780814258804Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Popular CultureSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SC0BE7GCPE
Claire Sisco King is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Chair of the Cinema and Media Arts Department at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema.
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