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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rojek, Chris 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [s.l.] Bloomsbury Academic 2012
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:The follow up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful <I>Celebrity</I>, this book assesses celebrity culture today. It explores how the fads, fashions and preoccupations of celebrities enter the popular lifeblood, explains what is distinctive about contemporary celebrity, and reveals the psychological, social and economic consequences of fame both upon the public and celebrities themselves. The book gives a new emphasis to the role of the media and public relations in engineering fame, and the psychological consequences of celebrity - notably Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Celebrity Worship Syndrome
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (208 S.)
ISBN:9781849661386
DOI:10.5040/9781849661386