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For the typical celebrity, living in the limelight has never been particularly easy, and it seems to be getting harder every day. Although celebrity in the current century is similar to how it has been experienced in the past, the widespread availability of the Internet and its endless innovative potentialities have certainly brought about changes and new challenges. Today, it is not uncommon for this seemingly desirable cult of personality to, at times, take on an unexpected life of its own, sweeping unprepared celebrities along for the ride. To enable readers to grasp the cumulative complexity of contemporary celebrity culture, this book explores dynamics of the celebrity experience in recent centuries and up to the present day. In doing so, it explicitly analyses ever-changing phenomena of relevance to the celebrity experience, the importance and impact of fans and fandom(s), and the various pleasures and pitfalls that celebrities regularly encounter.

Popular culture. --- Celebrities. --- Fame --- Social aspects.

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"Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public's desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the explosion of instant access to celebrity culture, bringing famous people and their admirers closer than ever before."--

Celebrities --- Fame --- Popular culture --- History --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Célébrités --- Culture populaire --- Renommée --- Aspect social --- Célébrités --- Renommée --- Celebrities - United States - History - 21st century --- Fame - Social aspects - United States --- Celebrities - History - 21st century --- Fame - Social aspects --- Popular culture - United States - History - 21st century

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Le XVIIIe siècle a été inventif : aux saints et aux rois, il a ajouté les hommes illustres dont l'ultime demeure est le Panthéon, ainsi que les hommes célèbres de la nation destinés à être collationnés dans les dictionnaires, un peu plus tardivement les femmes auteurs recensées comme il se doit par l'une d'entre elles ; plus que tout, il a inventé la célébrité en tant que telle, produit de consommation collective immédiat. C'est l'objet de ce livre que de montrer que la publicité qui prend forme dans le milieu du siècle, si l'on suit les analyses classiques de Jürgen Habermas, s'est accompagnée d'une pratique déroutante si l'on attend que ce soit la rationalité et l'esprit critique qui aient pu profiter de cette nouvelle forme d'échange, puisque c'est la célébrité, forme abâtardie de la gloire, qui influence les foules moutonnières, dans une caricature de la démocratie. Dans ce livre enraciné dans les meilleures traditions de l'histoire sociale, attentives aux études de cas comme aux grandes tendances collectives, l'auteur, connu pour son étude précédente du monde des salons et de la mondanité parisienne au XVIIIe siècle, continue sa lecture, roborative, des pratiques sociales du passé en les confrontant aux usages très contemporains. Dès les premières lignes, le ton est donné puisque Marie-Antoinette est comparée à Lady Di à propos du tournage du film de Sofia Coppola. L'anachronisme est revendiqué comme méthode, puisque la notion même de célébrité permet de renouveler la compréhension de la société du XVIIIe siècle comme de comprendre à quel point la pipolisation contemporaine copie ce qui se faisait deux siècles plus tôt.--

History of civilization --- World history --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Fame --- Civilization, Modern. --- Popular culture --- Renommée --- Civilisation moderne et contemporaine --- Culture populaire --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Célébrités --- Renommée --- Celebrities --- Celebrities. --- Fame. --- Manners and customs. --- Bekende mensen. --- History --- 1700-1899. --- France --- France. --- Social life and customs --- Histoire. --- 950 --- Siècle des Lumières --- presse histoire --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- histoire culturelle

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From reality television to celebrity gossip magazines, today's technologies have enabled a vast number of personal narratives that document our existence and that of others. Multiple academic disciplines now define the self as fluid and entirely changeable: little more than a performance that is chosen according to the situation. While news journalists still pursue the authentic narrative, advertising and politics might be accused of exploiting the narrative tendency, and across media the personal and public become increasingly merged. Real Lives, Celebrity Stories collects research from published and experienced professionals, practitioners and scholars who discuss narratives of real people across cultures and history and in multiple media. It uses narrative theory to interrogate the processes by which we create, promote and consume these stories of real people, and the ways in which we construct our own stories of self. By bringing together different disciplines it offers a theory of the production(s) of self in public spaces such as television, cinema, comics, fan cultures, music, news media, politics and cyberspace.

Celebrities in mass media --- Mass media and culture --- Fame --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- cultuurfilosofie --- sociologie --- psychologie --- Lucas Henry Lee --- etnografie --- Pekar Harvey --- reality tv --- Sinatra Frank --- 130.2 --- politiek --- internet --- nieuwe media --- beeldverhaal --- strips --- film --- mediatheorie --- media --- magazines --- tijdschriften --- televisie --- beroemdheid --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Culture and mass media --- Mass media

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The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world, connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. This book explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press presence. This three-pronged study of Kardashian media permits insights into contemporaneous American culture, namely societal norms, values, and ideologies,

Branding (Marketing) --- Celebrities --- Fame --- Popular culture --- Social media --- Television personalities --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Celebrity --- Renown --- Glory --- Brand name products --- Marketing --- Advertising --- Social aspects --- History --- Economic aspects --- Keeping up with the Kardashians (Television program)