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A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable.Drawing on scrapbooks, personal diaries, and vintage fan mail, Marcus 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 (1844-1923), as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era's most innovative media and technologies: the popular press, commercial photography, and speedy new forms of travel.Whether you love celebrity culture or hate it, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times.

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Kardashian Kulture uses the royal family of celebrity culture to scrutinize wider understandings of 21st century life. Examining the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, Ellis Cashmore shows how fundamental changes to the way we live have been prompted by celebrities.Examining today's celebrity-obsessed culture through the lives of a host of household names, including the Kardashians themselves, this book shows how celebrities have impacted on the wider culture from the birth of consumerism, the civil rights movements of the 1960s, and the growth of narcissism in the 1970s, to the rise of the paparazzi, reality television and the impact of social media, which has removed the barrier between celebrities and fans and led to the erosion of personal privacy.Celebrities are creations rather than people and ultimately, Cashmore argues, Kardashian Kulture is a product of our own making. Whether you regard celebrities as a witless bunch of overpaid show-offs or the conveyors of the zeitgeist is a matter of judgement and taste, the impact of the Kardashians and their kind is undeniable.

Celebrities --- Popular culture --- Popular culture. --- Celebrities. --- Kardashian (famille).

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Une histoire de France à travers ses duos célèbres... Couples politiques mariant l'amour, l'intérêt et souvent les deux, couples littéraires et/ou d'influence, mythiques ou médiatiques, passionnels ou énigmatiques : les vingt couples présentés ici racontent les régimes et les mutations successives du pouvoir, mais aussi de la célébrité, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Vingt chapitres qui conjuguent l'exigence historique et la fluidité littéraire, l'histoire intime et le roman national. « Un florilège de nos meilleurs historiens illustre avec éloquence ce que l'alliance au long cours, d'un homme et d'une femme, a pu incarner au fil des siècles, de notre histoire et de l'évolution de la société française. » Le Figaro Histoire « La narration, fluide et concise, sert la dramaturgie sans déborder sur la véracité historique. Une série de portraits dans laquelle on se plonge avec délectation. » Historia

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With case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.

Celebrities. --- Digital media. --- Popular culture

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"图说上海老洋房"全景式介绍上海优秀老洋房以及相关掌故,集中展示了上海这一国际大都市一个世纪以来,在花园洋房上凝聚的建筑精华和人文风采.上海的老洋房已有一百多年历史,是上海开埠以来'西风东渐'的产物,汇集了西式花园洋房的多种风格,是建筑艺术的精彩体现.

Architecture --- Architecture, Domestic --- Celebrities --- Historic buildings --- Dwellings