Category Archives: Consumption
September 5, 2011 The American Dream at Hollywood & Highland
Can you find traces of the American Dream at a shopping mall? You don’t have to look to hard to find the American Dream at Hollywood and Highland, a mall situated in the middle of the tourist attractions on Hollywood Boulevard. The shopping center’s floor features quotes of anonymous showbiz success stories, highlighting their rise [...]
Tags: american dream, celebrities just like us, celebrity culture, hollywood and highland, hollywood walk of fame
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May 4, 2011 Celebrity Gossip as News
It’s tempting to go to a news organization’s website, often loaded with celebrity gossip, and presume that they’re just giving the public what we want. Are they? While audiences bear some complicity in consuming celebrity gossip, there are a few other important reasons that news organizations regularly feature celebrity stories too. As I discuss in [...]
Tags: celebrity, celebrity culture and the american dream, gossip, journalism, karen sternheimer
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April 16, 2011 Celebrity Sells
Being a celebrity might be lucrative for a person of renown. Beyond individual celebrities or even the entertainment industry itself, celebrity is a major engine of commerce. At a time when the magazine industry is struggling to stay in business, celebrity-based content is thriving. News magazines like Time and Newsweek have seen their circulations plummet, [...]
Tags: celebrity culture, consumption, fan magazines, karen sternheimer
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