Het werk van professor Ellis Cashmore duikt in de ingewikkelde relatie tussen roem en de maatschappij. Zijn onderzoek behandelt complexe thema's als ras, mediapresentatie en culturele verhalen in het hedendaagse leven. Cashmore onderzoekt kritisch hoe publieke figuren en hun privélevens worden geconstrueerd voor massaconsumptie. Door een sociologische bril biedt hij scherpe inzichten in hoe de celebrititeitencultuur onze kijk op de wereld vormgeeft.
The researchers designed their own research platform and elicited the thoughts and opinions of nearly 2000 participants, to draw together insights of today's society as seen by users of smartphones, tablets and computers - what the authors call Screenagers.
Michael Jackson died in 2009, but he has never really left us and there are no signs he ever will.A globally acclaimed child star in the 1970s, the world's premier entertainer in the final decades of the 20th century, a perplexingly odd character in the 21st century, Jackson defied every known category and became borderline incomprehensible. To remedy this, in The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson , Ellis Cashmore reflects the restless, unorthodox and mysterious life Jackson led in order to understand more about him as well as his cultural impact.Exploring how Jackson emerged from the post-civil rights era when America was searching for someone who symbolized a new age as it struggled to unburden itself of racial inequality, Cashmore's book is the first to examine Jackson's career through the prisms of American racial politics and celebrity culture.Uniquely structured, beginning in the present and journeying back to Jackson's birth, The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson will excite and enliven debates on this controversial figure, one that very much continues to remain embedded within our culture.
Using the royal family of celebrity culture, the Kardashians, as a lens through which to scrutinize early 21st century culture, this book examines the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, to show how celebrity has fundamentally changed the way we live.
Offers advice on the psychology of Sport and Exercise. This book includes entries, which cover terms such as: adherence; aggression; emotion; exercise; dependence; home; advantage; kinesiphobia; left-handedness; motivation; retirement; and, self-confidence.