Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism 0814728243, 9780814728246

Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became t

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English Pages 304 Year 2011

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism
0814728243, 9780814728246

Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became t

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photograp

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The topic of American conservatism is especially timely—and perhaps volatile. Is there what might be termed an “exceptio

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The Hollywood Connection: The Influence of Fictional Media and Celebrity Politics on American Public Opinion is one of t

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A revealing portrait of an international anticommunist crusader whose life presaged the role of religion in right-wing A

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The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film indus

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Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of thi

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What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its a

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Buffalo Bill and the Birth of American Celebrity commemorates the rise of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and tells the ta

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Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. Gossip and Organizations provides t

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