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Author : Orville Gilbert Brim
Release : 2009-09-21
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Look at Me! by : Orville Gilbert Brim
Download or read book Look at Me! written by Orville Gilbert Brim. This book was released on 2009-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique study of the desire for fame, its origins, and its consequences from one of the leading scholars in the field of human and child development
Author : Gordon Samples
Release : 1982
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Lust for Fame by : Gordon Samples
Download or read book Lust for Fame written by Gordon Samples. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on Booth's ten tumultuous years on the stage, with a wealth of rare period illustrations reproduced with special techniques yielding results of better quality than the originals. The book evaluates his performances through newspaper reviews and the recorded opinions of his contemporaries; it also separates Booth the actor from Booth the assassin. Previously unpublished letters are included, some in facsimile. John Wilkes' famous brother Edwin was not necessarily the leading actor of his era: this book indicates why John Wilkes Booth might claim that distinction. One of the appendices is an exhaustive chronology of all his performances, and all fellow cast members.
Author : Joshua Gamson
Release : 2023-11-10
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 155/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Claims to Fame by : Joshua Gamson
Download or read book Claims to Fame written by Joshua Gamson. This book was released on 2023-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit. He draws on literary and sociological theory, as well as interviews with celebrity-industry workers, to untangle the paradoxical nature of an American popular culture that is both obsessively invested in glamour and fantasy yet also aware of celebrity's transparency and commercialism. Gamson examines the contemporary "dream machine" that publicists, tabloid newspapers, journalists, and TV interviewers use to create semi-fictional icons. He finds that celebrity watchers, for whom spotting celebrities becomes a spectator sport akin to watching football or fireworks, glean their own rewards in a game that turns as often on playing with inauthenticity as on identifying with stars. Gamson also looks at the "celebritization" of politics and the complex questions it poses regarding image and reality. He makes clear that to understand American public culture, we must understand that strange, ubiquitous phenomenon, celebrity.
Author : Fame
Release : 1853
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Book Synopsis Fame: an essay on the difficulties, dangers and dissatisfaction connected with the seeking after, & the obtaining the approbation of men, by a thinking labourer in the field of evangelical efforts by : Fame
Download or read book Fame: an essay on the difficulties, dangers and dissatisfaction connected with the seeking after, & the obtaining the approbation of men, by a thinking labourer in the field of evangelical efforts written by Fame. This book was released on 1853. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Giles
Release : 2017-03-14
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 500/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Illusions of Immortality by : David Giles
Download or read book Illusions of Immortality written by David Giles. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives people to crave fame and celebrity? How does fame affect people psychologically? These issues are frequently discussed by the media but up till now psychologists have shied away from an academic away from an academic investigation of the phenomenon of fame. In this lively, eclectic book David Giles examines fame and celebrity from a variety of perspectives. He argues that fame should be seen as a process rather than a state of being, and that 'celebrity' has largely emerged through the technological developments of the last 150 years. Part of our problem in dealing with celebrities, and the problem celebrities have dealing with the public, is that the social conditions produced by the explosion in mass communications have irrevocably altered the way we live. However we know little about many of the phenomena these conditions have produced - such as the 'parasocial interaction' between television viewers and media characters, and the quasi-religious activity of 'fans'. Perhaps the biggest single dilemma for celebrities is the fact that the vehicle that creates fame for them - the media - is also their tormentor. To address these questions, David Giles draws on research from psychology, sociology, media and communications studies, history and anthropology - as well as his own experiences as a music journalist in the 1980s. He argues that the history of fame is inextricably linked to the emergence of the individual self as a central theme of Western culture, and considers how the desire for authenticity, as well as individual privacy, have created anxieties for celebrities which are best understood in their historical and cultural context.
