Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines

by Andrea McDonnell

Book Overview

Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture's celebrity mania. After a decade of diets and dates, breakups and baby bumps, celebrity gossip magazines continue to sell millions of issues each week. Why are readers, especially young women, so attracted to these magazines? What pleasures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745682197
• ISBN13: 9780745682198
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"