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 …

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 …

In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a
celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of …

To explain why the lives of famous people such as Rihanna, Madonna, David Beckham,
Kate Middleton, Kareena Kapoor, Jennifer Lawrence, One Direction, or Miley Cyrus have …

On television and in films, in magazines and books, on the Internet and in the realm of
politics, celebrities of all sorts seem to dominate our attention. Celebrity Society: The …

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic
and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining the …

Over the past few decades, the public obsession with celebrity has exploded. There has also
been a huge growth in the number of college and university courses and degrees on …

In America, authors are as likely to be seen on television talk shows or magazine covers as
in the more traditional settings of literary festivals or book signings. Is this literary celebrity …

Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a
star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the …

This paper traces the history of two intertwining stories in American celebrity texts and their
relationship to the development and organization of publicity apparatuses. In one storyline …