| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) |
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Cover; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Celebrity Gossip Magazines in American Popular Culture; Loving (and Hating) Celebrity Gossip; Studying Celebrity Gossip Magazines; An Overview; 1: Gendering Celebrity Gossip; The Popular Feminine; Softening the News; Feminism and the Popular Feminine; Gendering Guilt; 2: All About Us: Celebrity Gossip Magazines and the Female Reader; Producing the Celebrity Gossip Magazine; When the Stars Align: Structuring Celebrity Gossip Narratives |
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3: Stars on Earth: The Paradox of Ordinary CelebrityThe Ordinary Celebrity; Between You and Me: The Magazine as Mediator; She and I: Audiences and the Ordinary Celebrity; 4: Making Morality Meaningful; Ordinary Ideals: Celebrity Gossip as Moral Tale; Making Morality Meaningful; "It Makes My Life Seem a Lot Better"; 5: Ambiguously Truthful; Creating Truth: Editorialization and Authority; The Pleasure of Detection; Conclusion: On Pleasure and the Popular; Working Through Gossip; Appendix A: Reader Profiles; Appendix B: Editor Profiles |
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Appendix C: Content Analysis of Female Celebrities in Cover Stories by AgeNovember-December 2009; References; Index |
| Summary |
Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture's celebrity mania. After a decade of diets and dates, breakups and baby bumps, celebrity gossip magazines continue to sell millions of issues each week. Why are readers, especially young women, so attracted to these magazines? What pleasures do they offer us? And why do we read them, even when we disagree with the images of femininity that they splash across their hot-pink covers |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-157) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women's periodicals, American.
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Celebrities -- United States -- Periodicals
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Gossip -- Periodicals
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Montana.
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Celebrities
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Gossip
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Popular culture
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Women's periodicals, American
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Periodicals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780745684550 |
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0745684556 |
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