The politics of fame /
"The Politics of Fame looks back on shifting trends in the culture and shifting currents in the human psyche that have compelled so many Americans to kneel before the thrones of so many strangers in so many different ways for so many years past and so very many to come"--
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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| Accès en ligne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1734291 |
Table des matières:
- Life, liberty and the pursuit of fame
- The celebrity with a cause
- The cultural commodity
- At long last, class
- Circulation wars
- The press and the immigrants
- The deviancy of adulation
- The decreasing literacy rate
- The leveling forces of democracy
- The declining importance of faith
- The acceleration of haste
- The false intimacy of the media.