A Genre Approach to Celebrity Politics: Global Patterns of Passage from Media to Politics

by Nahuel Ribke

Book Overview

Exploring the transition of celebrities into institutional-electoral politics, the book argues that many insights developed by genre theorists could be highly instrumental to understand the celebrity politics phenomenon. It analyzes the historical and cultural specificity of celebrity politics as it evolved through different countries and cultures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349488658
• ISBN13: 9781349488650
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"