This essay is for a module called Celebrity & Society which comes under sociology. The essay does require to include readings assigned to us which are attached and listed below. Please use the references given in the essay by myself and you can use other academic sources from google scholar. I have also attached a lecture slide of the relevant topic.
- Celebrity (Book by Rojek, Chris; EBL. – 2001) Read ‘Celebrity and celtoids’, pages 9-50.
- The Routledge companion to global popular culture (Book – edited by Toby Miller – 2015) Read chapter ‘Celebrity’ by J. Littler
- The frenzy of renown: fame & its history (Book by Leo Braudy – 1997)
- A short history of celebrity (Book by Fred Inglis; EBL. – c2010
- Celebrity (Book by Sean Redmond – 2019) Read chapter 1 ‘The key idea:two celebrity circuits beat as one’ Pages 1 -32
- Celebrity:Capitalism and the making of fame (Book by Milly Williamson – 2016) Read the introduction