Celebrity representation

A Celebrity culture is an environment that influences people to do something on a media platform to become a celebrity. Celebrity status can come after any type of medium vehicle; reality television is one of the main types, as reality television such as Big Brother actively encourages fame with the public viewing them on the TV. Celebrities have now become the key way that health advice is dismissed through. If we look at Jade Goody she kept her life in the public eye, when she found out that she had cervical cancer, the rise in cancer swabs went up by 40%. Bob Greene states that with reality TV, someone can become a public person just by being a person, in public.

Celebrities are compared to royalty with their fame. The public have a curiosity about celebrities private life and love affairs. The public are invited into many celebrities lives if we look at people like Amy Whinehouse and Jade Goody they bring the public into everything they do. The public seemed to build a love/hate relationship with celebrities. If a celebrity is creating or having a lot of bad press, this can help build a career with the public forming onto the celebrities side and not the media.

Tabloid magazines and television talk shows creates controversially and attention for celebrities. To stay in the public front and to obtain a new venture, celebrities are participating into business ventures such as autobiographies, perfume and clothing ranges. Public curiosity about the lives of celebrities, keeps their appearance in magazines, television and night club opening nights.

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Looking at a large number of texts dealing with the same subject – celebrity – enables us to detect common themes and narratives (stories), to the extent that with enough repetition we become able to talk about the representation of that subject. Working through a large number of texts about celebrities, we become aware of common themes. The stress is overwhelmingly on relationships, consumption and leisure, and work is quite minor. This is part of the establishment of a form of para-social intimacy (Horton and Wohl, 1993) with the celebrity. We learn about the kinds of things we would otherwise know only about people who really were our friends. Celebrity is depicted most consistently (that is, it is a pervasive image) as a matter of enhanced opportunities for sex and romance.

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