Celebrity Culture and the American Dream by: Karen Sternheimer
Softcover. NY, Routledge, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages illustrated in b&w. Using examples from the first celebrity fan magazines of 1911 to the present, Celebrity Culture and the American Dream considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today. Equally important, the book explains how and why the story of Hollywood celebrities matters, sociologically speaking, to an understanding of American society, to the changing nature of the American Dream, and to the relation between class and culture. Underlining to about 20 pages.
