Get Me A Celebrity

Author : Stanley Jackson
Publisher : Ecademy Press
ISBN 13 : 1907722483
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Me a Celebrity! written by Stanley Jackson and published by Ecademy Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get Me A Celebrity!" is Stanley Jackson's hilarious account of famous personalities from the world of sport, show business, politics and the media generating extra income for themselves in the corporate market. Stanley lifts the veil on this little known area of celebrity activity. The book also examines the crucial role of TV in creating celebrities, the use of agents and a host of contentious issues from political correctness to the perceived impartiality of the BBC.

Author : Su Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135653712
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing Celebrity written by Su Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American ‘quality’ television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity 'reality' TV (I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d. lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer and narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections: Fame Now broadly examines the contemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as 'reality' TV and the internet) and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame. Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and ‘authenticity’. Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.

Author : S. D. Burke
Publisher : Doodleface Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781735215723
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider...The Celebrity written by S. D. Burke and published by Doodleface Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider thinks he is a celebrity. Why you ask? Because if anyone sees him, they scream with "delight." This charming tale shows that your perspective on life, no matter how misconstrued, can keep you confident in any situation.

Author : Donnell Alexander
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Celebrity written by Donnell Alexander and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donnell Alexander grew up sideways in the cramped spaces of Sandusky, Ohio, the son of a devout mother and a dad named Delbert, a protean genius who jacked a thousand identities—from pimpin’ them hoes to preaching the gospel—but skipped out on fatherhood when his son was in diapers. Donnell unwittingly replayed Delbert’s tragedy as farce until he finally wrote himself his own story, becoming a star of California’s freewheeling alternative press, spreading the gospels of punk and hip-hop in print. After finding a career and starting a family of his own, Donnell was drawn to reconnect with the vanished Delbert, and when he did, things fell apart, as they tend to in the grip of ghetto celebrity. Told in multiple voices, freestyle raps, and a graphic interlude, this is the riotous story of one writer’s mission to find truth in the margins and an engrossing tale about phantom fathers and the sons they leave behind.

Author : Jo Piazza
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453205519
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrity, Inc. written by Jo Piazza and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From $10,000 tweets to making money in the afterlife, a recovering gossip columnist explores the business lessons that power the Hollywood Industrial Complex Why do celebrities get paid so much more than regular people to do a job that seems to afford them the same amount of leisure time as most retirees? What do Bush-era economics have to do with the rise of Kim Kardashian? How do the laws of supply and demand explain why the stars of Teen Mom are on the cover of Us Weekly? And how was the sale of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby pictures a little like a street drug deal? After a decade spent toiling as an entertainment journalist and gossip columnist, Jo Piazza asks the hard questions about the business behind celebrity. Make no mistake: Celebrity is an industry. Never in the course of human history has the market for celebrities been as saturated as it is today. Nearly every day most Americans will consume something a celebrity is selling—a fragrance, a sneaker, a song, a movie, a show, a tweet, or a photo in a magazine. With the benefits of Piazza’s unique access to the celebrity market, Celebrity, Inc. explains in detail what generates cash for the industry and what drains value faster than a starlet downs champagne—in twelve fascinating case studies that tackle celebrities the way industry analysts would dissect any consumer brand.

Author : Julia Morris
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1460713222
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julia Morris Makes it EASY written by Julia Morris and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilariously half-baked life advice from yet another deluded celebrity Welcome to Julia Morris's immaculately conceived EASY system: a crackpot satire on celebrity self-help culture. Julia will help you figure out the stuff you don't need to do, cut down on the crapola you've decided you don't want to do, make the stuff you absolutely have to do a breeze - and ensure you enjoy the whole lot. Brace yourself for a deluge of slacker life hacks, nice-but-not-very-bright advice and life-changing inspiration on: Making It All About You Getting Shallow The Importance of Always Proving Your Point The Joy of Ex-cuses Achieving Blind Self-confidence How to (Not) Get Shit Done Judging Others The Power of Negative Thinking The Zero Habits of Highly Ineffective People How to Say Yes, Then Cancel Complaining and Comsplaining Disclaimer: if you think this book is going to be like other celebrity self-help books, think again

Author : Steven Van Yoder
Publisher : Bay Tree Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780972002110
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Slightly Famous written by Steven Van Yoder and published by Bay Tree Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I build levers to move objects that appear to be immovable.Alexei Drovosek represents the next evolution of human: no heart, immunity to cancer, and the uncanny ability to survive in conditions that would kill normal men. As an orphan growing up in post-Soviet Russia, Alexei was taken in by the state and trained as its most vicious and effective killer. But eventually the Russian Federal Security Service's best-trained assassin did the most dangerous thing of all: he turned on his handlers, went rogue, and disappeared.In the bleak, high-tech near future, Alexei has resurfaced in a secret compound on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a city where autonomous-drive vehicles race along the highways and independent city-states operate with materialistic impunity. In the center of it all is the soaring headquarters of Pearl Knight Industries, an international mega-corporation that keeps war machines and cultural capitalism running in every country and on every continent on the planet. As a principal proponent of the 31st Amendment to the United States constitution, which legalized the transfer of suffrage from citizens to corporations, Pearl Knight has power that is truly above the law.Alexei lives a clandestine existence where his closest companions are his personal AI, Emma, and a group of orphans he has spent years amassing and training. But Alexei isn't fostering these children as a favor to the state; he's raising them with the hope that they will destroy it. As he moves each child into play in the world's highest-stakes game of chess that spans decades and continents, Alexei fights to destroy the plutocratic control of those in power and restore what matters to him most: democracy and freedom.

Author : Charles Hopkins-Thyme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788292944066
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Become a Celebrity written by Charles Hopkins-Thyme and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Warhol once said that everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. But why stop at 15 minutes? Being a celebrity opens doors that are closed to even the top members of society. Numerous celebrities have become budding business moguls and established themselves as very successful entrepreneurs. Their names have become brands worth millions of dollars. And celebrity status offers something that money really can't buy. It gives you a position and importance in society that can perhaps be rivaled only by top political leaders. More people will listen to what a celebrity has to say on a subject he or she may know nothing about than to wisdom from a senator who has served his state all his professional life. Celebrities are the new royalty. So why wouldn't you want to be one? This book provides a step-by-step description on how you can build a career in the limelight-from the very basics to the hidden secrets of the trade. It won't change your life overnight, but it will give you all the tools you need to succeed.

Author : Dom Joly
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472146050
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Tourist written by Dom Joly and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of places. In this brilliantly odd and hilariously told travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mile. The more insalubrious the place, the more interesting is the journey and so we follow Dom as he skis in Iran on segregated slopes, spends a weekend in Chernobyl, tours the assassination sites of America and becomes one of the few Westerners to be granted entry into North Korea. Eventually Dom journeys back to his roots in Beirut only to discover he was at school with Osama Bin Laden. Funny and frightening in equal measure, this is a uniquely bizarre and compelling travelogue from one of the most fearless and innovative comedians around.

Author : Violet Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celebrity's Daughter written by Violet Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: