Celebrity and Power: Fame and Contemporary Culture

by P. David Marshall

Book Overview

The celebrity is an ambiguous figure in contemporary culture. Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, stars represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. They are a peculiar form of public subjectivity that negotiates the tension between a democratic culture of access and a consumer capitalist culture of excess. Celebrity and Power examines this dynamic, questioning the cultural forces behind our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816627258
• ISBN13: 9780816627257
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"