CINE 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Celebrity Branding
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It has been said that celebrities serve the same function that ancient gods did, but there is a difference. People created gods to explain things lightning, death that they could not understand. We worship celebrities because they"re simple focal points in a world in which we have too much information if the most fatuous celebrity plants himself near a problem, he may embarrass himself. And a few of us may, little by little, be moved to change it (poniewozek 2005, n. p. Ascribed" (e. g. , through lineage such as that of certain royals whether hollywood or real" royals); Attributed" which is when celebrity is not exclusively a matter of special talent or skill" (p. 18). Involves the transmission of power relations, is connected with identity formation and notions of shared. What is celebrity? a celebrity is a person who is celebrated by society. Celebrities are people the public is interested in" (turner, bonner, and marshall 2000, p. 9)
