American Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television
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Full Title

American Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television
Author(s)

Christopher E. Bell
Edition
ISBN

9780786455539, 9780786448241
Publisher

McFarland
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The popular definition characterizes celebrity as a product of manufacture rather than merit. If fame is taken to represent the recognition of achievement, then modern celebrity, in contrast, must be based on something other than achievement, for celebrity and fame are not the same thing. This book explores the process by which celebrity is created, using the first seven seasons of Fox Television’s American Idol as a framework for analysis of how celebrity is defined, generated, nurtured, and intensified.

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