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Article: Celebrity Culture
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- Dictionary of American History
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CELEBRITY CULTURE
CELEBRITY CULTURE
is an essentially modern phenomenon that emerged amid such twentieth-century trends as urbanization and the rapid development of consumer culture. It was profoundly shaped by new technologies that make easily possible the mechanical reproduction of images and the extremely quick dissemination of images and information/News through such media as radio, cinema, television, and the Internet.
Thanks to publications such as
People,
tabloids such as
Star
and
The National Enquirer,
and talk shows where both celebrities and supposedly ordinary people bare their lives for public consumption, there is a diminished sense of otherness in the famous. Close-up ...