Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility

by Karen Sternheimer

Book Overview

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 first edition's examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present and expanding to include updated examples and additional discussion on the role of the internet and social media in today's celebrity culture. Equally important, the book explains how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138023949
• ISBN13: 9781138023949
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"