Celebrity Persona Pandemic
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9781517901059
Subjects: Celebrities; Communication
Description: "The Celebrity Persona Pandemic explores how the construction of a public persona is fetishized in contemporary culture. As social media has progressively led to a greater focus on the production of the self, so this book looks at the most visible versions of persona through figures such as Stephen Colbert, Cate Blachett, and Justin Bieber, as well as fictional characters like Spock and Harry Potter. Ultimately, P. David Marshall closely studies how persona culture shapes our notions of value and significance, and dramatically shifts cultural politics."