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Ryktbarhetens ansikte : Verner von Heidenstam, medierna och personkulten i sekelskiftets Sverige
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ISBN: 9789173532501 Year: 2008 Publisher: Stockholm : Atlantis,

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The cultural significance of the child star
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ISBN: 113589826X 1281101680 9786611101688 0203932234 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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The child star is an iconic figure in Western society representing a growing cultural trend which idolises, castigates and fetishises the image of the perfect, innocent and beautiful child. In this book, Jane O'Connor explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled in contemporary society. Drawing on current debates about the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood and fears about children 'growing up too soon', she identifies hostile media attention around child stars as indicative of broader social concerns about the 'correct' role and place of child


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Film and television stardom
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ISBN: 1282035738 9786612035739 1443803758 9781443803755 9781282035737 9781847186287 1847186289 Year: 2008 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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Film and Television Stardom examines film and television stars as a collectively complex, intriguing social phenomenon from the early twentieth century to the present day. Its range of topics includes (but is certainly not limited to) the emergence and historical development of the star system, silent-film stardom, stardom and media spectatorship, stardom and consumption, stardom and the paparazzi, reality-television "stars," stars in the news, and studies of individual stars. In addition t...


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Fame
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ISBN: 1317488512 1315710293 1282947443 9786612947445 1844654265 9781317488514 9781844651573 1844651576 9781315710297 9781317488491 9781317488507 9781138161108 1317488504 Year: 2008 Publisher: Durham : Acumen Publishing,

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Once a title held only by a privileged few, fame went hand-in-hand with respect and hard work. To be famous meant that you had achieved something noteworthy, or had an exceptional talent. But things have changed, as demonstrated by the number of singularly untalented people who are currently famous. Why has there been such a shift in our notion of fame and why has the desire for fame become such a powerful motivation for so many people? Mark Rowlands brings his philosophical expertise to bear on our concept of fame and explores the reasons behind its radical transformation. To understand this “new variant fame”, Rowlands argues, we must engage in an extensive philosophical excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in fourth-century BC Athens. Rowlands reveals that our presentday notion of fame and the extremes that accompany it are symptoms of a significant cultural change: the decline of Enlightenment ideas has seen individualism eclipse objectivism about value, so much so that what characterizes Western society today is its constitutional inability to distinguish quality from bullshit. This, argues Rowlands, is the predicament in which we find ourselves today and which explains how fame can now be unconnected with any discernible distinction: we have lost any grip on the idea that there might be objective standards of evaluation even for some of the most important choices we make. A fascinating mix of amusing anecdote and serious philosophical reflection, Fame presents us with a new way of looking at and understanding fame as we now know it, one that shows us how and why we have become the fame-hungry people we are today. It is a book written for anyone who has wondered how the world could ever have turned out like this.


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The Star as Icon : Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
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ISBN: 9780231518581 9780231145404 0231145403 0231518587 0231145411 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press

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The first hall of fame : a study of the statues in the Forum Augustum
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ISBN: 9789004168695 9004168699 9786613061171 9047443438 1283061171 9789047443438 9781283061179 6613061174 Year: 2008 Volume: 295 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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Although both national sites of commemoration and Halls of Fame for a variety of human endeavours are widespread, little thought was given to the fact that the statues in the Forum Augustum were the first assemblage of this kind. This book identifies the Greek and Roman backgrounds to and influences on Augustus' decision as well as his probable motives for setting up these statues. The central chapters deal with the structure of the Forum and its statues, and provide a detailed analysis of the list of men (and women) known to have been included and the criteria for inclusion. Finally the additions to the heroes between Augustus and Trajan and the later impact of this Gallery of Heroes are discussed.


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Du Guesclin et Froissart : la fabrication de la renommée
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ISBN: 9782847342963 2847342966 9791021004054 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris Tallandier

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The cultural significance of the child star
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ISBN: 9780415542678 9780415961578 0415961572 9780203932230 9781135898212 9781135898250 9781135898267 0203932234 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : Routledge,


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The Star as Icon
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ISBN: 9780231145404 0231145403 9780231518581 0231518587 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY

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Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly-the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voyeuristic and zealously guarded. With skill and humor, Daniel Herwitz pokes at the gears of the celebrity-making machine, recruiting a philosopher's interest in the media, an eye for society, and a love of popular culture to divine our yearning for these iconic figures and the role they play in our lives.Herwitz portrays the star icon as caught between transcendence and trauma. An effervescent being living on a distant, exalted planet, the star icon is also a melodramatic heroine desperate to escape her life and the ever-watchful eye of the media. The public buoys her up and then eagerly watches her fall, her collapse providing a satisfying conclusion to a story sensationally told-while leaving the public yearning for a rebirth.Herwitz locates this double life in the opposing tensions of film, television, religion, and consumer culture, offering fresh perspectives on these subjects while ingeniously mapping society's creation (and destruction) of these special aesthetic stars. Herwitz has a soft spot for popular culture yet remains deeply skeptical of public illusion. He worries that the media distances us from even minimal insight into those who are transfigured into star icons. It also blinds us to the shaping of our political present.


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Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic
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ISBN: 0812201426 0812221877 1322510520 Year: 2008 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In 1823, the History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled Philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to rescue her lover from the gallows and attempted to kidnap the governor of Pennsylvania tantalized its audience with illicit love, betrayal, and murder.Carson's ghostwriter, Mary Clarke, was no less daring. Clarke pursued dangerous associations and wrote scandalous exposés based on her own and others' experiences. She immersed herself in the world of criminals and disreputable actors, using her acquaintance with this demimonde to shape a career as a sensationalist writer.In Dangerous to Know, Susan Branson follows the fascinating lives of Ann Carson and Mary Clarke, offering an engaging study of gender and class in the early nineteenth century. According to Branson, episodes in both women's lives illustrate their struggles within a society that constrained women's activities and ambitions. She argues that both women simultaneously tried to conform to and manipulate the dominant sexual, economic, and social ideologies of the time. In their own lives and through their writing, the pair challenged conventions prescribed by these ideologies to further their own ends and redefine what was possible for women in early American public life.

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