The Instant Celebrity

Author : Tanya Slover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615649505

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The Instant Celebrity by Tanya Slover Pdf

The Instant Celebrity: Their 15 Minutes of Fame, Notoriety or Whatever is about those people who become famous, more often than not, for absolutely nothing - certainly not talent or real merit. Pop artist Andy Warhol got it right when he said that "In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes." That future is now. The tabloids, the internet, social media, reality TV and the 24/7 news cycle have all spawned a culture of fame unlike even Warhol might have imagined. In pursuit of their 15 minutes the fame seekers will do almost anything for recognition and the coveted brass ring of celebrity. While their stories can be cringe-producing and painful to behold, they can also be entertaining and hysterically funny.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : rob tencer
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Instant Celebrity. Stop Waiting To Be Famous by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. David Marshall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452944029

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Celebrity and Power by P. David Marshall Pdf

Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public’s desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the explosion of instant access to celebrity culture, bringing famous people and their admirers closer than ever before.

Author : Paulo M. Barroso
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527560888

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Contributions to Communicational, Cultural, Media, and Digital Studies by Paulo M. Barroso Pdf

This book is about communication, a universal, yet particular, form of linking people and ideas. It details the growing and multiform uses, functions, interactions, and effects of communication in the contemporary “world-society”, and highlights the dialectic between society and communication. It will also serve to stimulate critical thinking. The book is structured as a compendium of the sociology of communication, providing a practical and pedagogical-didactic resource especially for students, including case studies, summary-tables, questions for review, and excerpts from selected works and authors. This book is a major contribution to cultural, media, and digital studies, and will be of interest to those who live in an increasingly digital, technological, and global society, and want to understand a phenomenon as social as it is inevitable, spontaneous, and influential.

Author : Richard Medugno
Publisher : Richard Medugno
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 156368277X

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Deaf Daughter, Hearing Father by Richard Medugno Pdf

"In Deaf Daughter, Hearing Father, Medugno shares practical information on many of the common challenges faced by hearing parents. He provides a list of games that hearing and deaf children can play together, an important consideration for many families. His enthusiasm for all possibilities, from exploring the potential of video phones to helping stage CSD musicals, reveals his abiding devotion to Miranda."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gayle Stever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351252089

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The Psychology of Celebrity by Gayle Stever Pdf

Why are we fascinated by celebrities we’ve never met? What is the difference between fame and celebrity? How has social media enabled a new wave of celebrities? The Psychology of Celebrity explores the origins of celebrity culture, the relationships celebrities have with their fans, how fame can affect celebrities, and what shapes our thinking about celebrities we admire. The book also addresses the way in which the media has been and continues to be an outlet for celebrities, culminating in the role of social media, reality television, and technology in our modern society. Drawing on research featuring real life celebrities from the Kardashians to Michael Jackson, The Psychology of Celebrity shows us that celebrity influence can have both positive and negative outcomes and the impact these can have on our lives.

Author : Charles Ramsey
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938441516

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Dead Giveaway by Charles Ramsey Pdf

From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon . . . Charles Ramsey gives a roller coaster account of his life before, during, and after the dramatic rescue of three kidnapped women in Cleveland . . . Global news media declared him a hero. Well-wishers mobbed him. The Internet made him a viral sensation. It couldn’t have happened to a less likely guy. Now, read how it all went down. Ramsey was in the wrong place at the right time when he answered a young woman’s cry for help, kicked in his neighbor’s locked front door, and got her the hell out of there—leading to the astonishing rescue of three young women—Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight—who had been missing for a decade. Reporters and TV cameras flocked to a neighborhood—and a man—they otherwise would have ignored. Ramsey was ready, with plenty to say. “Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms . . . Dead giveaway.” It was a quote that launched a thousand Internet memes . . . In this book Ramsey walks us step-by-step through the day of the rescue and talks about living right next door to Ariel Castro—outwardly charming, secretly a monster. He tells about life before the rescue—growing up a privileged black kid in a white suburb, seeking out trouble over and over, getting kicked out of school, selling drugs, going to prison, and ultimately finding work as a dishwasher and landing by chance on gritty Seymour Avenue. And he shares what it’s like to become an instant celebrity, when suddenly everybody wants a piece of you. (For example, he learned the hard way that when a big TV network flies you to New York City for an interview, that doesn’t mean they also bought you a ticket back home to Cleveland!) This is a wild, eye-opening tale told with a sharp sense of humor.

Author : Larry Z. Leslie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216058618

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Celebrity in the 21st Century by Larry Z. Leslie Pdf

This book offers a critical look at celebrity and celebrities throughout history, emphasizing the development of celebrity as a concept, its relevance to individuals, and the role of the public and celebrities in popular culture. Tabloid magazines, television shows, and Internet sites inundate us with daily updates about movie stars, musicians, athletes, and even those who have achieved celebrity status simply for being rich and extravagant. Disturbingly, it appears that the harder our celebrities fall, the more fascinating they are to us. As popular culture becomes more influential, it is important to understand both the positive and negative aspects of celebrity. This volume traces the development of the concept of celebrity, discusses some of the problems facing both celebrities and their followers, and points to future trends and developments in our cultural understanding of celebrity. The author's treatment is unflinchingly honest, revealing the importance of the public's role in celebrities' lives and establishing firm criteria for determining who is a celebrity—and who is not.

Author : Ralph Pite,Tom Hubbard,Rikky Rooksby,Edward Wakeling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040128947

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Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 1 by Ralph Pite,Tom Hubbard,Rikky Rooksby,Edward Wakeling Pdf

In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors.

Author : Robert F. Sayre
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299142442

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American Lives by Robert F. Sayre Pdf

American Lives is a groundbreaking book, the first historically organized anthology of American autobiographical writing, bringing us fifty-five voices from throughout the nation's history, from Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Jonathan Edwards, and Richard Wright to Quaker preacher Elizabeth Ashbridge, con man Stephen Burroughs, and circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Representing canonical and non-canonical writers, slaves and slave-owners, generals and conscientious objectors, scientists, immigrants, and Native Americans, the pieces in this collection make up a rich gathering of American "songs of ourselves." Robert F. Sayre frames the selections with an overview of theory and criticism of autobiography and with commentary on the relation between history and many kinds of autobiographical texts--travel narratives, stories of captivity, diaries of sexual liberation, religious conversions, accounts of political disillusionment, and discoveries of ethnic identity. With each selection Sayre also includes an extensive headnote providing valuable critical and biographical information. A scholarly and popular landmark, American Lives is a book for general readers and for teachers, students, and every American scholar.

Author : Annette Wernblad
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786462322

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The Passion of Martin Scorsese by Annette Wernblad Pdf

From his earliest shorts to his recent feature films The Departed and Shutter Island, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the deepest archetypal themes, symbols, and structures in Martin Scorsese's entire body of work. It examines each of Scorsese's films as a mythological journey through which the main character is offered an opportunity for psychological and spiritual enlightenment, focusing especially on how each character is led to recognize, accept, and embrace his or her flawed traits. The book also explores the ways in which Scorsese's films incite extreme reactions and strike deep chords within his viewers, particularly by speaking the language of the unconscious and forcing readers to examine their own hidden flaws.

Author : Bronwen Thomas,Julia Round
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441146182

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Real Lives, Celebrity Stories by Bronwen Thomas,Julia Round Pdf

From reality television to celebrity gossip magazines, today's technologies have enabled a vast number of personal narratives that document our existence and that of others. Multiple academic disciplines now define the self as fluid and entirely changeable: little more than a performance that is chosen according to the situation. While news journalists still pursue the authentic narrative, advertising and politics might be accused of exploiting the narrative tendency, and across media the personal and public become increasingly merged. Real Lives, Celebrity Stories collects research from published and experienced professionals, practitioners and scholars who discuss narratives of real people across cultures and history and in multiple media. It uses narrative theory to interrogate the processes by which we create, promote and consume these stories of real people, and the ways in which we construct our own stories of self. By bringing together different disciplines it offers a theory of the production(s) of self in public spaces such as television, cinema, comics, fan cultures, music, news media, politics and cyberspace.

Author : David Cort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015050188864

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Revolution by Cliché by David Cort Pdf

Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736960670

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The Power of Jesus' Names by Tony Evans Pdf

“Who do you say I am?” Matthew 16:15 In his insightful follow-up to the bestselling book, The Power of God’s Names, Dr. Tony Evans introduces you to Jesus in ways you may have never seen Him before. Jesus is anticipated from the very beginning of the Bible and is mentioned many times up until He finally arrives on the scene in Bethlehem—yet never in the Old Testament is He called Jesus. Rather, He has many names that reflect all the different aspects of His character. And there are even more names in the New Testament to explore as well! Both in-depth Scripture research and Dr. Evans’ signature storytelling style make The Power of Jesus’ Names a fascinating journey—you will get to know Him as Immanuel King Lamb of God Great High Priest Son of God and more. As you study the life and character of Jesus, you will enter into a deeper understanding of who He is and what He came to do for—and in—your life today.

Author : Louise Edwards,Elaine Jeffreys
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622090873

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Celebrity in China by Louise Edwards,Elaine Jeffreys Pdf

Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. This is the first book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms of celebrity production. The book comprises case studies from popular culture (film, music, dance, literature, internet); official culture (military, political, and moral exemplars) and business celebrities. This breadth illuminates the ways capitalism and communism converge in the elevation of particular individuals to fame in contemporary China. The book will interest scholars and students in media, popular culture and China studies. Journalists may find the book useful for their analysis of famous figures in China and people working in creative industries area may appreciate these insights into 'image management' in China.--Louise Edwards is professor of modern China studies at the University of Hong Kong. -Elaine Jeffreys is a senior lecturer in China studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.--