Canadian Theatre Review: Celebrity Culture

by Marlis Schweitzer (Editor), Laura Levin (Editor)

This issue of Canadian Theatre Review joins a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon now widely referred to as ?celebrity culture.? Since the mid-1990s, the ubiquitous and surprisingly long-standing appeal of reality television, the proliferation of online gossip sites and photo agencies, the popularity of blogs and social networking sites from Facebook to Twitter, and the incredible success of YouTube have dramatically increased the number of venues through which average citizens can view and vie for fame and fortune. Celebrities living their ?everyday lives? are subject to constant surveillance by the paparazzi and by extension the fans who view ?candid? celebrity photos and videos online.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 2010