Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… invention of celebrity is based on more than just lexical history. Modern celebrity is distinguished from more traditional forms of fame, which are argued to be rooted in premodern senses of honour and glory. Kings, knights and … 4 . Joseph Roach, It (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), p. 1, 4, 12, and passim. This distinction between traditional and modern forms of fame, in which celebrity is seen as a distinctly modern form, is not universally … in one form or another in most societies’. 6 Like those histories that emphasize the modernity of celebrity, this tradition sees celebrity as a distinct kind of fame – one in which certain individuals are lifted out of obscurity by …
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