02530nam a2200433Ii 4500 9781787437067 UtOrBLW 20251029120156.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 191018t20192019enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781787437067 (e-book) 9781787439641 (ePUB) UtOrBLW eng rda UtOrBLW HM621 .C37 2019 JFCA bicssc SOC022000 bisacsh 303 Cashmore, Ellis, author. 59383 Kardashian kulture : how celebrities changed life in the 21st century / Ellis Cashmore. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (vii, 217 pages) ; cm. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier SocietyNow Includes bibliographical references and index. Kardashian Kulture uses the royal family of celebrity culture to scrutinize wider understandings of 21st century life. Examining the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, Ellis Cashmore shows how fundamental changes to the way we live have been prompted by celebrities.Examining today's celebrity-obsessed culture through the lives of a host of household names, including the Kardashians themselves, this book shows how celebrities have impacted on the wider culture from the birth of consumerism, the civil rights movements of the 1960s, and the growth of narcissism in the 1970s, to the rise of the paparazzi, reality television and the impact of social media, which has removed the barrier between celebrities and fans and led to the erosion of personal privacy.Celebrities are creations rather than people and ultimately, Cashmore argues, Kardashian Kulture is a product of our own making. Whether you regard celebrities as a witless bunch of overpaid show-offs or the conveyors of the zeitgeist is a matter of judgement and taste, the impact of the Kardashians and their kind is undeniable. Celebrities. 59384 Popular culture. 57605 Social Science Popular Culture. bisacsh 59385 Popular culture. bicssc 57605 9781787437074 SocietyNow. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787437067 51451 51451