The death of celebrity: global grief, manufactured mourning
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2018
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Elliott, A.
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Elliott, A.
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Source details - Title: Routledge handbook of celebrity studies, 2018 / Elliott, A. (ed./s), Ch.7, pp.109-123
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“In the last hundred years”, wrote Leo Braudy (1986), “the nature of fame has changed more decisively and more quickly than it has for the previous two thousand. Visual media became the standard-bearers of international recognition, giving art, religion, and politics shapes they never had before” (p. 584). What are the social and political dimensions of fame and celebrity? How does celebrity impact self-identity and social relations? What personal and institutional dynamics underlie the role of celebrity in conditions of advanced modernity? In particular, what does the death of celebrity - the erasure of fame - tell us about the dynamics of society and culture?.
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Copyright 2018 selection and editorial matter, Anthony Elliott; individual chapters, the contributors.