Full 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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Famous for Being Famous
I. Ideas and Cabbages
II. Dude! I Met Elway!
III. Jay-Z Is One of Us, Only Not
IV. When Someone's Down on the Floor, Kick Them
V. What's a Ballsy?
VI. You've Got the X Factor
VII. Sugarfoot and Babyface
VIII. Wear the Least Amount of Clothes Possible
IX. Why Is She Special?
X. Are You Drunk?
XI. I Want to Break Free
XII. Look at This! I'm Unique!
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
