Celebrity Society
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 âthe celebrityâ is bound up with the structure and dynamics of society, economics, and politics. It outlines how the âcelebrification of societyâ 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.
Drawing on the ideas of Norbert Elias, the book explains how contemporary celebrity society is the heir (or heiress) of âcourt societyâ, taking on but also transforming many of the functions of the aristocracy. As well as examining celebrity in all the familiar arenasâfilm, television, music, fashion, and sportâCelebrity Society also includes the analysis of celebrity in business and management, politics, humanitarianism, and philanthropy. A key feature of the book is its development of the idea that celebrity is driven by the âeconomy of attentionâ, since attention has become a form of capitalâattention capitalâin the Information and Internet age.
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 âworker celebrityâ, 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.
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 âthe celebrityâ is bound up with the structure and dynamics of society, economics, and politics. It outlines how the âcelebrification of societyâ 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.
Drawing on the ideas of Norbert Elias, the book explains how contemporary celebrity society is the heir (or heiress) of âcourt societyâ, taking on but also transforming many of the functions of the aristocracy. As well as examining celebrity in all the familiar arenasâfilm, television, music, fashion, and sportâCelebrity Society also includes the analysis of celebrity in business and management, politics, humanitarianism, and philanthropy. A key feature of the book is its development of the idea that celebrity is driven by the âeconomy of attentionâ, since attention has become a form of capitalâattention capitalâin the Information and Internet age.
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 âworker celebrityâ, 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.
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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 âthe celebrityâ is bound up with the structure and dynamics of society, economics, and politics. It outlines how the âcelebrification of societyâ 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.
Drawing on the ideas of Norbert Elias, the book explains how contemporary celebrity society is the heir (or heiress) of âcourt societyâ, taking on but also transforming many of the functions of the aristocracy. As well as examining celebrity in all the familiar arenasâfilm, television, music, fashion, and sportâCelebrity Society also includes the analysis of celebrity in business and management, politics, humanitarianism, and philanthropy. A key feature of the book is its development of the idea that celebrity is driven by the âeconomy of attentionâ, since attention has become a form of capitalâattention capitalâin the Information and Internet age.
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 âworker celebrityâ, 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.
