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Title: Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940 by Charles L. Ponce De Leon, Charles L. Ponce De Leon ISBN: 0-8078-5403-4 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply stunning!
Comment: This is a brilliant book on a subject that we often dismiss as trivial. Remarkably, as you read Ponce de Leon's history of the evolution of celebrity journalism, you realize that most of the strategies the celeb followers and creators employed 100 years ago are still being used today in People, Sports Illustrated and similar magazines. Equally fascinating is the way more astute (or malleable?) celebrities learned to adapt to the culture of celebrity and present themselves in a certain manner so as to fit the necessary mold. (Witness the way Katherine Hepburn posed as an everyday woman with the same concerns as any other homemaker during the 1930's -- the truth was probably very different.) Mr. Ponce de Leon's first book is an engaging and penetrating critique into the ways in which celebrities are presented -- and present themselves -- and how the entire notion of celebrity is manipulated in ways that are designed to reaffirm middle class mores.
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Title: Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture by Thomas Doherty ISBN: 0231129521 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years by Mary Ann Watson ISBN: 0195057465 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Life: The Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler ISBN: 0375706534 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg ISBN: 0393048969 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 06 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Sociology of News (Contemporary Sociology (New York, N.Y.).) by Michael Schudson ISBN: 0393975134 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
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