The Drama of Celebrity
$56.58
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2021
Summary
A bold new account of how celebrity works.
Why do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Drawing on scrapbooks, diaries, and vintage fan mail, she traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691210186 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691210187 |
| Author: | Sharon Marcus |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
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About The Author
Sharon Marcus
Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of the award-winning Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton).
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