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Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility Paperback - 2014 - 2nd Edition

by Karen Sternheimer


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Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Second Edition considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today, retaining the first edition's examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present and expanding to include updated examples and additional discussion on the role of the internet and social media in today's celebrity culture. Equally important, the book explains how and why the story of Hollywood celebrities matters, sociologically speaking, to an understanding of American society, to the changing nature of the American Dream, and to the relation between class and culture. This book is an ideal addition to courses on inequalities, celebrity culture, media, and cultural studies.

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  • Title Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility
  • Author Karen Sternheimer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 274
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2014-12-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781138023956 / 1138023957
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.61 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.55 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Library of Congress subjects Social mobility - United States, Social classes - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014026117
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.513

About the author

Karen Sternheimer is a sociologist at the University of Southern California, where she is a distinguished fellow at the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. She is also the author of Connecting Popular Culture and Social Problems: Why Media is not the Answer (2013), Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility (2011), Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth (2006), It's Not the Media: The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence on Children (2003), and is the editor and lead writer for everydaysociologyblog.com. She has provided commentary for NPR, CNN, MSNBC, The History Channel, and Fox News.

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