Notes on Fame

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture
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Author: Tom Payne ISBN: 9781429991728
Publisher: Picador Publication: January 18, 2011
Imprint: Picador Language: English
Author: Tom Payne
ISBN: 9781429991728
Publisher: Picador
Publication: January 18, 2011
Imprint: Picador
Language: English

A free preview collection of essays from Tom Payne, author of FAME

We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in a ritual of human sacrifice? Perhaps because that is exactly what they are.

In this collection of essays, Tom Payne -- of the website Popcropolis and the "trenchant, unsettling, and darkly hilarious" Fame (New York Times Book Review) -- draws the narratives of the past and the immediate present into one intriguing story.

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT FROM FAME!

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A free preview collection of essays from Tom Payne, author of FAME

We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in a ritual of human sacrifice? Perhaps because that is exactly what they are.

In this collection of essays, Tom Payne -- of the website Popcropolis and the "trenchant, unsettling, and darkly hilarious" Fame (New York Times Book Review) -- draws the narratives of the past and the immediate present into one intriguing story.

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT FROM FAME!

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