American Idolatry

Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television

By: Christopher E. Bell

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Paperback | 1 February 2010

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232 Pages

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18+

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13+

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.35

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The popular definition characterizes celebrity as a product of manufacture rather than merit. If fame is taken to represent the recognition of achievement, then modern celebrity, in contrast, must be based on something other than achievement, for celebrity and fame are not the same thing.

This book explores the process by which celebrity is created, using the first seven seasons of Fox Television''s American Idol as a framework for analysis of how celebrity is defined, generated, nurtured, and intensified.

Industry Reviews

"this study is a serious take on what the program and the celebrities it creates suggest about American society and culture"-Communication Booknotes Quarterly; "thoroughly researched and in-depth"-Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies.

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