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Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit. He draws on literary and sociological theory, as well as interviews with celebrity-industry workers, to untangle the paradoxical nature of an American popular culture that is both obsessively invested in glamour and fantasy yet also aware of celebrity's transparency and commercialism. Gamson examines the contemporary "dream machine" that publicists, tabloid newspapers, journalists, and TV interviewers use to create semi-fictional icons. He finds that celebrity watchers, for whom spotting celebrities becomes a spectator sport akin to watching football or fireworks, glean their own rewards in a game that turns as often on playing with inauthenticity as on identifying with stars. Gamson also looks at the "celebritization" of politics and the complex questions it poses regarding image and reality. He makes clear that to understand American public culture, we must understand that strange, ubiquitous phenomenon, celebrity.
Celebrities --- Popular culture --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States - General --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Persons --- Fan clubs --- History --- Sociology of culture --- United States --- Social life and customs --- United States of America
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The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law. Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. He tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales-- adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families-- set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made.
Families --- Racially mixed families. --- Gay parents. --- Human reproductive technology. --- Kinship. --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Assisted conception --- Assisted human reproduction --- Assisted human reproductive technology --- Conception --- Human assisted reproduction --- Human assisted reproductive technology --- Human reproduction --- Medical technology --- Reproductive technology --- Homosexual parents --- Parents --- Interracial families --- Mixed race families --- Mixed-racial families --- Multiracial families --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- History --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Stieffamilie --- Verwandtschaft --- Kind --- Interkulturalität --- Homosexuelles Paar --- Familie --- Families. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Popular Culture. --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Public Policy --- Cultural Policy. --- Racially mixed families --- Gay parents --- Human reproductive technology --- Familien --- Ehe --- Lineage --- Gleichgeschlechtliches Paar --- Gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensgemeinschaft --- Homosexualität --- Homosexuelle Lebensgemeinschaft --- Homosexuelle Partnerschaft --- Homosexuelle Paare --- Paar --- Eheähnliche Gemeinschaft --- Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft --- Gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe --- Transkulturalität --- Hybridität --- Cross-culturalism --- Cross-culturality --- Kulturkontakt --- Kulturübertragung --- Interkulturelle Kompetenz --- Kindheit --- Kindesalter --- Kindschaft --- Kinder --- Child --- Children --- Childhood --- Lebensalter --- Verwandter --- Verwandte --- Angehöriger --- Familienangehöriger --- Patchworkfamilie --- Families - History - 21st century --- Patchwork-Familie
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Pierson, Jack ; Gursky, Andreas ; Wearing, Gillian ; Land, Peter ; Sherman, Cindy ; Cattelan, Maurizio ; McCarthy, Paul ; Koons, Jeff ; Warhol, Andy ; Hirst, Damien ; et al.
entertaining --- video art --- beroemde persoon --- mixed media --- photography [process] --- Art --- performance art --- ready-mades --- installations [visual works] --- light art --- chessboards --- sculpting --- Parreno, Philippe --- Cattelan, Maurizio --- Shea, David --- Ray, Charles --- Bowery, Leigh --- Bronson, Jessica --- Warhol, Andy --- Choi Jeong Hwa --- Tzaig, Uri --- Kelley, Mike --- Friedl, Peter --- Pierson, Jack --- Rondinone, Ugo --- Sherman, Cindy --- Graham, Dan --- Stokker, van der, Lily --- McCarthy, Paul --- Hanson, Duane --- Dadi, Elizabeth --- Gordon, Douglas --- Lee, Bul --- Gursky, Andreas --- Prince, Richard --- Huyghe, Pierre --- Uklanski, Piotr --- Orozco, Gabriel --- Douglas, Stan --- Mori, Mariko --- Briand, Mathieu --- Aitken, Doug --- Museum in progress --- Amorales, Carlos --- Land, Peter --- Graham, Rodney --- Gonzalez-Torres, Felix --- Perigot, Alexandre --- Hirst, Damien --- Dijkstra, Rineke --- Wearing, Gillian --- Murakami, Takashi --- Nishiyama, Minako --- Birnbaum, Dara --- Buchanan, Roderick --- Kippenberger, Martin --- Koons, Jeff --- Slominski, Andreas --- Breuning, Olaf --- General Idea --- Kyupi Kyupi --- Bernadette Corporation --- Gonzales-Torres, Felix --- museum in progress [Vienna] --- ready-mades [found objects] --- bodybuilding (kunst)
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