Marcus Sharon - The Drama Of Celebrity - PaperbackBinding: Paperback Description: A bold new account of how celebrity works Why do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Drawing on scrapbooks diaries and vintage fan mail she traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth century roots when people the world over found
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Binding: Paperback
Description: A bold new account of how celebrity works Why do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Drawing on scrapbooks diaries and vintage fan mail she traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth - century roots when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs bad - boy poets and actors such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. The Drama of Celebrity reveals how journalists the public and celebrities themselves all compete to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans resulting in a high - stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable.
Title: The Drama Of Celebrity
Author(s): Marcus Sharon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691210186
Pages: 328 Pages, 104 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 8/11/2020
Category: Gender Studies, Gender Groups
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Marcus Sharon - The Drama Of Celebrity - Paperback