The Drama of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus

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Princeton University Press
01 March 2021

Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Popular culture; Media studies; Gender studies, gender groups

A bold new account of how celebrity works.

Why do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Drawing on scrapbooks, diaries, and vintage fan mail, she traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors such as the 'divine' Sarah Bernhardt, as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. The Drama of Celebrity reveals how journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans, resulting in a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable.

'[An] inventive, stimulating book...

Marcus is a brilliant theorist and analyst of theatre history.' — Elaine Showalter, New York Times

'In lucid prose, [Marcus] describes celebrity as a drama with three main characters: celebrities, the public that adores and judges them, and the media producers who exalt, criticise and satirise.' — Irina Dumitrescu, Times Literary Supplement

'Sharon Marcus's book is a tour de force.' — Jonathan Margolis, Jewish Chronicle

'I love the book.' — Radhika Jones, WBUR's On Point

'Utterly brilliant. Marcus travels back to the nineteenth century and returns bearing a high-definition mirror for our own celebrity-driven era. She maps the dynamics of fame, reveals their consistency through time, and teaches us how to better inhabit our mediated world today. No fan could ask for more.' — Fred Turner, author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

By: Sharon Marcus
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm,
ISBN: 9780691210186
ISBN 10: 0691210187
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of the award-winning Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton). Twitter @MarcusSharon

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The Drama of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus

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