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Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader. "Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity.

Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader

Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding stardom and celebrity culture, this book is a worthwhile addition to any library. " - Kerry Gough, Birmingham City University "Absolutely wonderful. The inclusion of seminal works and more recent works makes this a very valuable read. " - Beschara Karam, University of South Africa. The fame formula: how Hollywood's fixers, fakers and star makers shaped the celebrity industry by Borkowski, Mark. Being-in-the-world of celebrity: The phenomenology of fame. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/004726609X12482630041889 Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 40 (2009) 178–210 brill.nl/jpp.

Being-in-the-world of celebrity: The phenomenology of fame

Survey: YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens. U.S. teenagers are more enamored with YouTube stars than they are the biggest celebrities in film, TV and music.

Survey: YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens

That’s the surprising result of a survey Variety commissioned in July that found the five most influential figures among Americans ages 13-18 are all YouTube faves, eclipsing mainstream celebs including Jennifer Lawrence and Seth Rogen. The highest-ranking figures were Smosh, the online comedy team of Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla, both 26. Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Be a Reality Star. Reality show stars have become more popular than actual movie stars.

Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Be a Reality Star

» How Much Does Reality TV Pay? Reality TV now makes up 17 percent of prime time TV programming.

» How Much Does Reality TV Pay?

Producers like it because a reality TV show usually costs about half of a narrative show to make. Part of the savings comes from paying the people involved less money. The union vs. non-union debate is heating up in Hollywood. Scripted vs. The situation for reality TV stars? Money, honey. If you're part of a reality TV show and might be famous for 15 minutes, tops, it's probably best to cash in while you can.

The situation for reality TV stars? Money, honey

But what if you're not a breakout star on the Kim Kardashian level? No worries. Blue-chip national advertisers, nightclub promoters and book publishers still want you. And they're willing to fork over real money — sometimes six figures and up — for your recognizable face. The 10 Highest-Earning Reality Television Stars: Kardashians to Situation. The head of the cartel is called “El Elegante,” his rich-boy buddy styles himself “Indiana Jones.”

The 10 Highest-Earning Reality Television Stars: Kardashians to Situation

One tried to corner the drug market, the other went after art. MEXICO CITY, Mexico—Through all the battles waged in Mexico in recent years over the shipment routes and markets for narcotics, San Miguel de Allende has remained as neutral as Switzerland in the Second World War. San Miguel, a 500-year old city nestled high in the Bajío Mountains of central Mexico, seemed to be literally above the fray, and to most of the artists and expats who inhabit it the drug violence at lower altitudes is a distant affair.

The prevailing wisdom has it that narcos don't shoot up the places where they invest their money. Reality TV: audiences and popular factual television by Hill, Annette. Is This Reality? – Blurring the Lines Between Life and Television. Is This Reality?

Is This Reality? – Blurring the Lines Between Life and Television

Blurring the Lines Between Life and Television By Jeffrey R. Ambrose Reality TV crowds the nightly programming schedule, commands record prime-time ratings, amasses avid fans—yet detaches viewers’ lives from reality. Why? Extreme: An animal handler puts live scorpions on the head of a participant during a theme park competition of the reality television show Fear Factor Live (June 16, 2005). Source: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images. Under-30 rich list: young, famous and seriously wealthy - BBC Newsbeat. Not only are these stars young, good-looking and famous - they're also incredibly wealthy.

Under-30 rich list: young, famous and seriously wealthy - BBC Newsbeat

Heat magazine has published its rich list of stars under 30, with Cara Delevingne the highest new entry at 21. With her £7.49m she could afford the most expensive car in the world - the Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, valued at $4.5m (£2.8) - in a couple of colours. Top Celebrity Fashion Icons of All Time. Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture. Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before.

Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture

It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. Understanding Reality Television. Understanding reality television by Jermyn, Deborah, 1970-, Holmes, Su. The Fame Game: How the Noughties Have Changed the Face of Celebrity. - Scallywag and Vagabond. Mocking elderly Hollywood stars with serious addiction problems and lauding young talentless non-entities from Reality TV, Celebrity Big Brother documents how Britain's obsession with fame has reached a new low, by Jim Shelley.

By Jim Shelley for The Daily Mail Published: 18:36 GMT, 22 August 2014 | Updated: 11:02 GMT, 23 August 2014. Tiara.org. T i a r a . o r g home | Research Blog | Dissertation | Papers & Presentations | Tumblr | Twitter | Email Me Abstract My dissertation looks at how people use social media to boost their social status. When social media technologies, or "Web 2.0," emerged, scholars and technologists hailed them as a new era of participatory, egalitarian culture. M/C Journal: "'The Only Place Where ''Success'' Comes before ''Work'' Is in the Dictionary...?'" 1Reality TV has emerged as a visible site for contemporary debates over modern fame. In fact, while issues of ‘taste’ and cultural value have long since shaped conceptions of celebrity (Turner, Bonner, Marshall 178), the issue of fame has played a central role in the negative cultural criticisms of Reality TV.

Reality programming is often invoked as short-hand to illustrate the moral ills of contemporary fame – as if it has somehow swept away the certainties of ‘the past’ where discourses of public recognition, visibility and reward are concerned. In exploring Reality TV as a site of contemporary fame, I examine here some of these claims to ‘transformation’, not so much to defend the form’s participation in celebrity culture, as to indicate that there is more going on here than these (increasingly familiar) critiques appear to suggest. 3These positions clearly intersect, their distinctions largely inflected by the perspective of the observer.