Keeping up the Kardashian brand: celebrity, materialism, and sexuality

"Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press coverage. This triangulated study allows insight into contemporaneous...

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Main Author: McClain, Amanda Scheiner 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham Lexington Books [2015]
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Summary:"Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press coverage. This triangulated study allows insight into contemporaneous American culture: societal norms, values, and ideologies, as well as structural and cultural aspects of cross-platform brand creation. The television series examination finds intrinsic paradoxes of sexuality/conservatism, family/business, beauty/unhappiness, narcissism/celebrity, intimate/transgressiveness, and traditional/nontraditional gender roles, as well as materialism and public vs. private spheres themes."..
Item Description:Ebook Aufnahme basiert auf der 2014 erschienenen Print Ausgabe
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (141 Seiten)
ISBN:9780739177150
073917715X
9780739177167

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