Waubonsee Community College

Celebrity culture, edited by Noah Berlatsky

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Celebrity culture

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edited by Noah Berlatsky

Opposing viewpoints series

Chapter 1. Is celebrity culture harmful? Celebrity culture is natural and can be beneficial / David Cox -- Too many celebrities, not enough heroes / Landon Y. Jones -- Celebrity culture is not that terrible / Courtney Enlow -- Celebrities work to prevent sexual assault / Lesley Clark and Renee Schoof -- Why Miley Cyrus matters / Mona Charen -- Celebrities promote unhealthy eating and obesity / Tara Haelle. Chapter 2. Is celebrity activism beneficial? Celebrities can help bring attention to worthy causes / Alain de Botton -- Celebrities make worthy causes absurd / Douglas Valentine -- The thirty most generous celebrities / Anderson Antunes -- Celebrity philanthropy may be misguided and misleading / Kat Stoeffel -- The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions / Andrew Bowman. Chapter 3. How does celebrity culture affect particular groups? Coming out: when love dares speak, and nobody listens / Jeremy W. Peters -- Celebrities coming out helps gay rights / Trish Bendix -- Why we need to ask celebrities whether they're feminists / Amanda Duberman -- Asking female celebrities if they are feminists is useless / Meghan Murphy -- Children provide the excuse for moral panic around celebrity culture / Karina Wilson. Chapter 4. Is celebrity culture changing? Celebrity culture can become more accessible and subversive / Amber L. Davisson -- The culture of celebrity is far from dead--it's just growing up / Tim Lott -- Celebrity culture still rests on traditional myths about fame / Su Holmes -- Celebrity culture is based on evolution / Stephanie Pappas -- Social media does not necessarily create authentic connections with celebrities / Alice Marwick an danah boyd

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