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PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813599423
ISBN-139780813599427
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038658320
Product Key Features
Number of Pages154 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameExtraordinarily Ordinary : US Weekly and the Rise of Reality Television Celebrity
SubjectRich & Famous, Television / History & Criticism, Popular Culture, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Television / Genres / Reality, Game Shows & Talk Shows
Publication Year2020
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorErin A. Meyers
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight0.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2019-016324
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsErin A. Meyers provides a masterful, lively account of reality TV celebrity. Extraordinarily Ordinary is a must-read for anyone eager to understand the meaning and power of celebrity today., Highly engaging and readable, Extraordinarily Ordinary is a clear, in-depth analysis of both the celebrity gossip magazine genre and the nature of fame in the 21st century.
Grade FromEleventh Grade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.45/750922
Table Of ContentThe Ordinary and the Extraordinary: Unpacking the Celebrity Image The Labor of Ordinariness: Famous for "Being Yourself" Celebrity Lifestyle Labor: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary Lauren Conrad: Us Weekly and the Extraordinarily Ordinary Celebrity Conclusion: The Future of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Celebrity
SynopsisExtraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine. Erin A. Meyers connects the economic and industrial forces that helped propel Us Weekly to the top of the celebrity gossip market in the early 2000s with the ways in which reality television cast members fit neatly into the social and cultural norms that shaped the successful gossip formulas of the magazine. Us Weekly ?s construction of the ?extraordinarily ordinary? celebrity within its gossip narratives is a significant symptom of the broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness and the private in the production of contemporary celebrity, in which fame is paradoxically grounded in ?just being yourself? while simultaneously defining what the ?right? sort of self is in contemporary culture., Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine. Erin A. Meyers connects the economic and industrial forces that helped propel Us Weekly to the top of the celebrity gossip market in the early 2000s with the ways in which reality television cast members fit neatly into the social and cultural norms that shaped the successful gossip formulas of the magazine. Us Weekly 's construction of the "extraordinarily ordinary" celebrity within its gossip narratives is a significant symptom of the broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness and the private in the production of contemporary celebrity, in which fame is paradoxically grounded in "just being yourself" while simultaneously defining what the "right" sort of self is in contemporary culture., Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine, unpacking the ways in which the magazine helped promote a broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness or "just being yourself" in the production of contemporary celebrity.
LC Classification NumberPN1992
