A Short History of Celebrity / / Fred Inglis.
Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly writ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 14 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Fame and Feeling
- Chapter 1. The Performance of Celebrity
- Chapter 2. A Very Short History of the Feelings
- Part II. The Rise of Celebrity: A Three-Part Invention
- Chapter 3. The London-Brighton Road, 1760-1820
- Chapter 4. Paris: Haute Couture and the Painting of Modern Life
- Chapter 5. New York and Chicago: Robber Barons and the Gossip Column, 1880-1910
- Part III. The Past in the Present
- Chapter 6. The Geography of Recognition: Celebrity on Its Holidays
- Chapter 7. The Great Dictators
- Chapter 8. The Stars Look Down: The Democratisation of Celebrity
- Chapter 9. From Each According to His Ability: Sport, Rock, Fashion, and the Self
- Chapter 10. Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves
- Envoi. Cherishing Citizens
- Notes
- Illustrations
- Index