Celebrity Culture

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Chancey, Jill R.  “Diana Doubled: The Fairytale Princess and the Photographer,” NWSA Journal vol. 11, no. 2, 1999, 163-75.

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Cowen, Tyler. What Price Fame? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

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Flatley, Jonathan. “Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia.” In Pop Out: Queer Warhol. Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, and José Esteban Muñoz, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 101-31.

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Gabler, Neal. Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity. New York: Vintage, 1995.

Gamson, Joshua. Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Gamson, Joshua. “Jessica Hahn, Media Whore: Sex Scandals and Female Publicity.” Critical Studies in Media Communication vol. 18, no. 2 (June 2001).

Giles, David. Illusions of Immortality: A Psychology of Fame and Celebrity. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

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Harris, Neil. Humbug: The Art of P.T. Barnum. Boston, MA: Little Brown and Co. 1973.

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Homes, Susan and Redmond, Sean, eds. Fame Culture: A Reader. London: Sage, 2005.

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Schickel, Richar. Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1985

Schmid, David. Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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Stacey, Jackie. Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship. New York: Routledge,1994.

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Walsh, Chris. “Stardom Is Born: The Religion and Economy of Publicity in Henry James’ The Bostonians.” American Literary Realism, (Spring 1997), 15-25.

Wicke, Jennifer. “Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity.” In Feminism, the Public and the Private. Joan B. Landes, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Wilson, Cintra. A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations. New York: Viking, 2000.

Zengotita, Thomas de. “Celebrity, Irony, and You.” The Nation, 2 December 1996, 15-18.