Claims to Fame 1st Edition by Joshua Gamson ISBN 9780520914155 0520914155

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ISBN 10:  0520914155

ISBN 13:  9780520914155

Author:  Joshua Gamson 

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analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today’s heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit.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.

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 mean

Table of contents: 

Part One: The Celebrity Text

• Chapter One: The Great and the Gifted: Celebrity in the Early Twentieth Century

• Chapter Two: The Name and the Product: Late Twentieth-Century Celebrity

Part Two: The Production of Celebrity

• Chapter Three: Industrial-Strength Celebrity

• Chapter Four: The Negotiated Celebration

• Chapter Five: Props, Cues, and the Advantages of Not Knowing: Audiences in the World of Celebrity Production

Part Three: Celebrity-Watching Audiences

• Chapter Six: Hunting, Sporting, and the Willing Audience: The Celebrity-Watching Tourist Circuit

• Chapter Seven: Can’t Beat the Real Thing: Production Awareness and the Problem of Authenticity

• Chapter Eight: Believing Games

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