The Celebrity Culture Reader

by P. Da Marshall (Editor)

From the new celebrity culture that has emerged from reality television and the Internet, to the paparazzi-filled endgame of Princess Diana and the bizarre trials and tribulations of Michael Jackson, The Celebrity Culture Reader documents the significant role that celebrities occupy in contemporary culture. Combining classic essays and contemporary writings, The Celebrity Culture Reader investigates the cultural implications of this complex contemporary phenomenon.

Genres: Cultural Studies

872 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 2006

Reviews

[Summer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a huge, huge, huge book that could probably have been 1/4 as long. It took me a long time to finish because the farther away I get from being an undergrad, the less tolerance I have for Freudianism, postmodernist deconstruction, classical readings, and other intellectually questionable styles of writing. I'm more interested in looking at cultural studies through psychological or sociological spectrums, not through some sort of irreproducible vacuous Foucaultian "analysis."

There were some good essays in here, though, and it's a great book if you need to keep a door open or flatten out a wrinkled piece of paper.

[Matt Chisling (MattyandtheBooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection required some serious editing in terms of size - simply put, it is too long and too unfocused to appropriately draw in a reader for its entirety, even if someone needed to consider this collection for academic research. Having said that, parts of this book provide some of the deepest, most terrific analyses of celebrity culture, the creation of celebrity, idolization, and more. Personal favorites included the works by Dyer, Gamson, Rojek, and Marshall himself. Worth reading as a survey of the major academic works on the study of celebrities, but I'd pass on this if you are looking for something to immerse yourself in cover to cover.

[EvaLovesYA · Rating 3 out of 5]

En rigtig god kilde med dybdegående stof og en grundig gennemgang.
- Brugt på universitetet (engelsk kandidat) til en opgave om self-representation, selfies og celebrity culture.
Og ja, jeg lavede noget, men jeg læste også om twitter-beefs og researchede på Youtube i 2 dage. Det var alletiders!