Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture

by Pramod K. Nayar

Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture explores the ways in which celebrities are manufactured, how they establish their hold on the public imagination and how social responses enable them to be what they are. Celebrity culture is marked by three main responses: adulation, identification and emulation. These responses are generated as a result of media constructions of celebrities. Therefore, celebrity culture needs to be studied as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00RP5YE8M
• ISBN13: 9788178299075
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"