Celebrity culture

Berlatsky, Noah, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780737772463
ISBN: 0737772468
ISBN: 9780737772470
ISBN: 0737772476
Physical Description: print
203 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1. Is celebrity culture harmful? Celebrity culture is natural and can be beneficial / David Cox -- Too many celebrities, not enough heroes / Landon Y. Jones -- Celebrity culture is not that terrible / Courtney Enlow -- Celebrities work to prevent sexual assault / Lesley Clark and Renee Schoof -- Why Miley Cyrus matters / Mona Charen -- Celebrities promote unhealthy eating and obesity / Tara Haelle. Chapter 2. Is celebrity activism beneficial? Celebrities can help bring attention to worthy causes / Alain de Botton -- Celebrities make worthy causes absurd / Douglas Valentine -- The thirty most generous celebrities / Anderson Antunes -- Celebrity philanthropy may be misguided and misleading / Kat Stoeffel -- The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions / Andrew Bowman. Chapter 3. How does celebrity culture affect particular groups? Coming out: when love dares speak, and nobody listens / Jeremy W. Peters -- Celebrities coming out helps gay rights / Trish Bendix -- Why we need to ask celebrities whether they're feminists / Amanda Duberman -- Asking female celebrities if they are feminists is useless / Meghan Murphy -- Children provide the excuse for moral panic around celebrity culture / Karina Wilson. Chapter 4. Is celebrity culture changing? Celebrity culture can become more accessible and subversive / Amber L. Davisson -- The culture of celebrity is far from dead -- it's just growing up / Tim Lott -- Celebrity culture still rests on traditional myths about fame / Su Holmes -- Celebrity culture is based on evolution / Stephanie Pappas -- Social media does not necessarily create authentic connections with celebrities / Alice Marwick an danah boyd.