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This work questions the cultural forces behind the need to become endlessly embroiled with the construction and collapse of celebrities.

Table of Contents
Tracing the meaning of the public individual chapter; conceptualizing the collective - the mob, the crowd, the mass and the audience; tools for the analysis of the celebrity as a form of cultural power; the cinematic apparatus and the construction of the film celebrity; television's construction of the celebrity; the meanings of the popular music celebrity - the construction of distinctive authenticity; the system of celebrity; the embodiment of affect in political culture; conclusion - forms of power/forms of public subjectivity; Coda - George, celebrities and the shift in political/popular culture.

Celebrity And Power

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/02/1997
      ISBN13: 9780816627257, 978-0816627257
      ISBN10: 0816627258

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work questions the cultural forces behind the need to become endlessly embroiled with the construction and collapse of celebrities.

      Table of Contents
      Tracing the meaning of the public individual chapter; conceptualizing the collective - the mob, the crowd, the mass and the audience; tools for the analysis of the celebrity as a form of cultural power; the cinematic apparatus and the construction of the film celebrity; television's construction of the celebrity; the meanings of the popular music celebrity - the construction of distinctive authenticity; the system of celebrity; the embodiment of affect in political culture; conclusion - forms of power/forms of public subjectivity; Coda - George, celebrities and the shift in political/popular culture.

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