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Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality (PDF eBook)


Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality (PDF eBook)

eBook by McClain, Amanda Scheiner

Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality (PDF eBook)

£40.00

ISBN:
9780739177167
Publication Date:
29 Oct 2013
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:
Lexington Books
Pages:
158 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
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Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality (PDF eBook)

Description

The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality television series, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press coverage. This triangulated study allows insight into contemporaneous American culture: societal norms, values, and ideologies, as well as structural and cultural aspects of cross-platform brand creation. The television series examination finds intrinsic paradoxes of sexuality/conservatism, family/business, beauty/unhappiness, narcissism/celebrity, intimate/transgressiveness, and traditional/nontraditional gender roles, as well as materialism and public vs. private spheres themes. In addition, a study of the Kardashian blogs and Twitter use finds that their careful participation amplifies celebrity and unifies the overall brand into a single, sellable image across media. Through interactive media and just being themselves, the Kardashians renovate banal status updates and hackneyed reality television into character-constructing building blocks of brand, celebrity, and profits.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Family and the Business Chapter 2: Family, Gender, and Transgressions Chapter 3: Celebrity, Beauty, and Sexuality Chapter 4: Social Media Chapter 5: Journalistic Interpretation of the Kardashians Chapter 6: Conclusion

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