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Fame Attack
Contributor(s): Rojek, Chris (Author)

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 ISBN: 1849660719     ISBN-13: 9781849660716
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE: $43.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Social Science | Media Studies
Dewey: 302.23
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (0.75 lbs) 208 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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This follow-up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful 2001 book Celebrity assesses what celebrity culture means now, especially in the age of reality TV. Rojek argues that the framework for looking at celebrity culture is still valid, but the genres of ascribed celebrity, achieved celebrity, and celetoids overlap.

He explorers the principles of celebrity engineering, including the technologies of fame creation in the context of reality TV. He also investigates whether performers and contestants are intentionally staged in particular ways to gain notoriety or acclaim. Rojek argues that we need to look at audiences in more detail, asking whether psychological issues of loneliness and personal uncertainty are really at the core of celebrity culture.

Written by an acclaimed and established author, this book is set to become the benchmark in the field.

Contributor Bio(s): Rojek, Chris: - CHRIS ROJEK is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of many books the most recent of which are Leisure Theory, Celebrity, Stuart Hall, and Frank Sinatra. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure Studies.
 
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