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A short history of celebrity
Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the history of celebrity, this book explains how fame has changed over the past two-and-a-half centuries.
Starting with the first modern celebrities in mid-eighteenth-century London, including Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent, the book traces the changing nature of celebrity and celebrities through the age of the Romantic hero, the European fin de siècle, and the Gilded Age in New York and Chicago. In the twentieth century, the book covers the Jazz Age, the rise of political celebrities such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, and the democratization of celebrity in the postwar decades, as actors, rock stars, and sports heroes became the leading celebrities.
Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, Inglis considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what--and what not--to do.
This book will interest anyone who is curious about the history that lies behind one of the great preoccupations of our lives.
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The Delicious History of the Holiday
Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, fed on imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what we wish we were. In this charming account, Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour, through the coming of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the hippie trail to Kathmandu. He celebrates the bodily pleasures of generations of tourists - from Edwardian banquets in Paris to fish and chips on the beach, from the Bright Young Things on the Riviera to the chosen hardships of the sea, the desert wastes and the mountain tops. He considers the ideals and the spiritual aspirations which are part of what we look for in a holiday, but he also warns of a darker current - how we have increasingly destroyed what we take most pleasure in and how the dealings between those who have much and those who have little, can seldom, however good our intentions, avoid the taint of exploitation.
'As the title and images on the cover suggest, [Fred Inglis] adopts a certain lightness of touch, eshewing dry-and-dusty historical analysis for a highly personal account through which the author's opinions are made known.' - Steve Shaw, University of North London
1. The Perfect Holiday 2. The Invention of Tourism 3. Confecting Seaside 4. The Meaning of Luxury 5. Magnetic Dangers 6. The Industrialisation of Mobility 7. The Mediterranean 8. Foreign Bodies 9. City States 10. Futures: Virtue on vacation
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History man
This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician. A figure of enormous energy and ambition, he took as his subject nothing less than the whole of human endeavor, and he lived in the same way, seeking to experience the complete range of human passion. In this vivid and swiftly paced narrative, Fred Inglis tells the dramatic story of a remarkable life, from Collingwood's happy Lakeland childhood to his successes at Oxford, his archaeological digs as a renowned authority on Roman Britain, his solo sailing adventures in the English Channel, his long struggle with illness, and his sometimes turbulent romantic life.
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Key Concepts in Education
About the SeriesThe SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.Key Concepts in Education provides students with over 100 essential themes, topics and expressions that Education students are likely to encounter, both during their courses and beyond in professional practice. Co-authored to draw on experiences of working within academia, local authorities and the classroom, the entries provide:a definition of the concepta description of the historical and practical contextan explanation of how the concept is appliedan evaluation of the concepthelpful references and suggested further readingThis book will be essential reading for students of Education, and an invaluable reference tool for their professional careers. About the AuthorsFred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sheffield. Lesley Aers is a senior member of a local authority school improvement service and an Ofsted inspector. Both authors are former schoolteachers.
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The Performance of Celebrity
This is a history book. Insofar as it offers a theory of itself, it is a theory of historical sedimentation, transformation, re-creation. It is the theory that we live, wittingly and involuntarily, the assorted versions of our selves and our society which history has deposited within us. Nothing much to say about that except that history is not a vast undifferentiated force coming at us with a capital H, but an irresistible series of tiny, invisible infiltrations which sidle along our bloodstream and oscillate in our thoughts and feelings.
Insofar as we become conscious of these invasions, we do so
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Stories We Tell Ourselves about Ourselves
These pages are full of references to culture, a notoriously elastic concept. A concept (to say so again) is not necessarily a single word. It may be a phrase, a set of terms, or something more obscure, but in whatever form it serves to pick out certain features of experience and isolate them as an object of thought. If, however, such a term becomes too elastic and is required to enclose too many features at once, the object of thought becomes vague and impossible to think about. At this point the concept is vacuous.
All the same, the philosopher Wittgenstein
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A Very Short History of the Feelings
The history of celebrity therefore demands a kind of history which is largely missing on the shelves. It is a history of what the greatest commentators of our origins in the 1760s or so would have called the moral sentiments. David Hume, greatest of them all, wroteA Dissertation on the Passions, and Adam Smith, his close friend, admirer, and executor, now best known for his authorship of the first indisputable classic of economics,Wealth of Nations, wroteThe Theory of the Moral Sentiments, which ran into six editions before Smith died in 1790.
These men—and many others in
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The Stars Look Down
The star system took shape as a series of careful plans some time after 1917 when Douglas Fairbanks senior and Mary Pickford began their famous affair. Studios, as everybody knows, hired actors like football clubs hired footballers. They were contracted to a fixed wage; they wore invisibly the company badge; they made as many films a year as the studio required.
For its part, the studio guaranteed them employment in a way which must have been very reassuring after the chanciness of theatre work, and it set up formal recruiting processes as well as hiring scouts to find likely lads
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