Thursday, 15 December 2016

Celebrity and Power - Fame in Contemporary Culture, P. David Marshall


Notes from Text
  • Part 1... 'Conceptualising the collective: The mob, the crowd, the mass, and the audience'.
  • Preface... 'The media themselves have often been perceived as powerful in their capacity to shape and frame the messages and representations of particular cultures'.
  • 'Celebrity status operates at the very centre of the culture as it resonates with conceptions of individuality'.
  • 'The celebrity sign is entirely image' - No substance.
  • 'Constructs and deconstructs the social world in terms of temporal and transforming audiences'.
  • Films... 'the heroes they portray are fixed images'.
  • 'fixed conceptions of their identity can be made' - Not real.

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