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The Drama of Celebrity

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sharon MarcusPublish date:2020-08-11Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691210186ISBN-10:691210187UPC:9780691210186Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Popular Culture, Social HistorySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCR88DD5MN

A bold new account of how celebrity works

Why do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Drawing on scrapbooks, diaries, and vintage fan mail, she traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. The Drama of Celebrity reveals how journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans, resulting in a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691210186ISBN-10:691210187UPC:9780691210186Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Popular Culture, Social HistorySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCR88DD5MN
Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of the award-winning Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton). Twitter @MarcusSharon
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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