Claims to fame: celebrity in contemporary America
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 begin...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit.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. |
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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Explaining Angelyne i
Part One: The Celebrity Text
1. The Great and the Gifted: Celebrity in the
Early Twentieth Century 15
2. The Name and the Product:
Late Twentieth Century Celebrity 40
Part Two: The Production of Celebrity
3. Industrial Strength Celebrity 57
4. The Negotiated Celebration 79
5. Props, Cues, and the Advantages of Not Knowing:
Audiences in the World of Celebrity Production 108
Part Three: Celebrity Watching Audiences
6. Hunting, Sporting, and the Willing Audience:
The Celebrity Watching Tourist Circuit 129
vii
viii Contents
7. Can t Beat the Real Thing: Production Awareness
and the Problem of Authenticity 142
8. Believing Games 172
Conclusion: Celebrity, Democracy, Power, and Play 186
Appendix: Theoretical and Methodological Notes 197
Notes 217
Works Cited 239
Index 249
Illustrations
1. Celebrity as product: Angelyne, ca. 1991. 3
2. Stars as typical: Judy Garland plays baseball, 1937. 30
3. The mask of glamour: Carole Lombard, 1933. 36
4. The mask removed: Bette Davis tests the water, 1952. 37
5. Enjoying the humor in the hype: two actors, as they
appeared in Spy magazine, 1992. 50
6. Celebrity making revealed: Cher enjoys a quiet time in a
serene setting, 1992. 51
7. The knowing, ironic stance: Clark Gable as he appeared in
Life magazine, 1989. 53
8. Politician as celebrity: the Clintons on the cover of People,
1992. 188
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