Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Journalism and celebrity in the consumer revolution and bourgeois public sphere -- 3. Celebrity and the New Journalism -- 4. Acts of consecration and desecration: Journalism and 20th-century stardoms -- 5. Tabloidism, television and the neoliberal soap opera -- 6. The story of the 21st century: Hyperconsumerism, neopopulism and and the networked applications of journalism and celebrity -- 7. Conclusion: What's to be done?