Celebrity by Andrea McDonnell PAPERBACK 9781479862030

CelebrityA History of Fame\nAuthor(s): Susan J. Douglas, Andrea McDonnell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479862030, 978-1479862030\nSynopsis\nThe historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century\n Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation of fame. Celebrity explores this revolution and its often under-estimated impact on American culture. Using numerous precedent-setting examples spanning more than one hundred years of media history, Douglas and McDonnell trace the dynamic relationship between celebrity and the technologies of mass communication that have shaped the nature of fame in the United States.\n Revealing how televised music fanned a worldwide phenomenon called \""Beatlemania\"" and how .