01758 a2200169 4500 25832 25832 9781138295063 306.4 VAN-C Van Krieken, Robert Celebrity society : the struggle for attention 2nd Edition Routledge 2019 London 246p. Include Bibliography and Index 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 Struggle for Attention brings new perspectives to our understanding of how the figure of 'the celebrity' is bound up with the structure and dynamics of society, economics, and politics. It outlines how the 'celebrification of society' is not just the twentieth-century product of Hollywood and television, but a long-term historical process, beginning with Christian saints, the printing press, theatre, and art. In this second edition the author has updated and significantly revised this path-breaking book to include a more detailed discussion of attention capital, the question of gender and celebrity, populism, fans, fandom, and self-formation, micro-celebrity, and personal or self-branding, the 'worker celebrity', and the impact of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Celebrity is an exciting and rapidly expanding field of social science, making this engaging book a valuable resource for students and scholars in sociology, politics, history, celebrity studies, cultural studies, the sociology of media, and cultural theory. Mass media--Social aspects Fame--Social aspects Fame--Psychological aspects Popular culture ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2019-12-27 OP 2055.72 2019-12-20 0 306.4 VAN-C 50655 2019-12-27 00:00:00 2816.06 2019-12-27 BK