Description - Celebrity Society by Robert van Krieken
Celebrity Society brings a new dimension to our understanding of celebrities, capturing the way in which the figure of 'the celebrity' is bound up with emergence of modernity. It outlines how the 'celebrification of society' is not just the twentieth century product of Hollywood and television, but a long-term historical process, beginning with the printing press, theatre and art. The book goes beyond the accounts of celebrity 'culture' to develop the analysis of 'celebrity society', with its own, constantly changing, social practices and structures, moral grammar, construction of self and identity, legal order and political economy organized around the distribution of visibility, attention and recognition. It draws on the work of Norbert Elias to explain how contemporary celebrity society is the heir to court society, taking on but also democratizing many of the functions of the aristocracy. Readers will learn what Obama and Paris have in common, and why we should see all celebrity as driven by the 'economics of attention', because attention has become a vital and increasingly valuable resource in the information age.
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