COMM 123 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Celebrity Culture, Paparazzi, Emotional Labor
23 Mar 2018
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From hero to celebrity: the human pseudo-event (boorstin) Our problem is in our power to make men famous. Never was a time when fame was precisely the same thing as. Fame is the spur the clear spirit doth raise. Before the graphic revolution the natural way of becoming well known was the usual way. Famous men came into a nations consciousness only slowly. The past became the natural habitat of great men. Each successive age has believed that heroes -great men - dwelt mostly before its own time. Within the last century we have discovered the processes by which fame is manufactured. We have been misled into believing that fame is still a hallmark of greatness. Our power to fill our minds with more big names has increased our demand for big names and our willingness to confuse the big name with the big man. We don"t like to believe that our admiration is focused on a largely synthetic product.
