Fame attack : the inflation of celebrity and its consequences /
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| Author / Creator: | Rojek, Chris. |
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| Imprint: | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. ©2012 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13416854 |
| Summary: | The follow up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful Celebrity , this book assesses celebrity culture today. It explores how the fads, fashions and preoccupations of celebrities enter the popular lifeblood, explains what is distinctive about contemporary celebrity, and reveals the psychological, social and economic consequences of fame both upon the public and celebrities themselves.The book develops the framework for looking at celebrity culture which Rojek set out back in 2001, by showing how ascribed celebrity, achieved celebrity and celetoids overlap. The book gives a new emphasis to the role of the media and public relations in engineering fame, and the psychological consequences of celebrity - notably Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Celebrity Worship Syndrome.The book is a landmark contribution in explaining how celebrities dominate the social horizon and why we need them. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781849668040 1849668043 9781849661386 1849661383 1849660727 9781849660723 1849660719 9781849660716 9781849668057 1849668051 |