HISTART 180C Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapin: Mass Media, Celebrity Culture, Yvette Guilbert
25 Dec 2016
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Celebrity became an equal-opportunity venture, moving away from the rulers/aristocracy and towards anyone who could capture and keep the spotlight. Toulouse-lautrec capitalized on caricaturing and documenting there new celebrities and in the process became one himself. Mass media and american culture were key inspirations for the change. The caf -concert rose during the 1840s, 50s, and was incredibly prevalent by the 60s (its function as a house of vaudeville/vulgar entertainment appealed to all classes and allowed. New celebrities found fame through: carte-de-visites, auto/biographies, posters originally intended to showcase the venue, poster-makers pivoted as certain performers gained acclaim and started creating dancer-centric posters. Development of celebrity culture in 1882: demographic shifts, growth of the entertainment industry, publicity tools such as photographs, biographies, autobiographies, and posters, tangling of fine art and consumerism, easing of government censorship in 1881. Developed by jules roques (from the entertainment/advertising industry) in 1884, le.
