Adolf Hitler
carl
Carl Van Vechten
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celebrity
Celebrity Culture
Chaplin's Work
Chaplin’s Work
Chronic
commodification of fame
Confer
Contemporary Society
culture
dorian
Dorian Gray
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garbo
gray
Great Divide
greta
Hitler
identity construction
leni
Leni Riefenstahl
mass media theory
Modernist Celebrities
modernist influence on celebrity culture
Modernist Star Maps
Notoriety
OED
Persona
print culture studies
Saturday Evening Post
Scarlet Pimpernel
Sierra Nevadas
Superimposed
transatlantic modernism
Tropic Death
van
Vanity Fair
vechten
Violating
visual culture analysis
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754666103
- Weight: 657g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald) to the surprising (Elvis and Hitler). Illuminating case studies are balanced by the volume's attentiveness to broader issues related to modernist aesthetics, as the contributors consider celebrity in relationship to identity, commodification, print culture, personality, visual cultures, and theatricality. As the first book to read modernism and celebrity in the context of the crises of individual agency occasioned by the emergence of mass-mediated culture, Modernist Star Maps argues that the relationship between modernism and the popular is unthinkable without celebrity. Moreover, celebrity's strange evolution during the twentieth century is unimaginable without the intercession of modernism's system of cultural value. This innovative collection opens new avenues for understanding celebrity not only for modernist scholars but for critical theorists and cultural studies scholars.
Aaron Jaffe is Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of English, Florida State University, USA
Jonathan Goldman is Professor of English, New York Institute of Technology, USA.
