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Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America
Claims to Fame Celebrity in Contemporary America
Author: Joshua Gamson
Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today's her...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520083530
ISBN-10: 0520083539
Publication Date: 3/2/1994
Pages: 270
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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