Celebrity cultures in Canada
by ProQuest (Firme), Marshall, P. David, Lee, Katja, York, Lorraine
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"Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address a variety of cultural venues--politics, sports, film, and literature--and …
" Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the …