Celebrity Culture The World Over Infects Vulnerable Families

Hollywood is a very powerful modern day institution, where a star's image can characterize, shape and circulate societal myths and ideologies. The construction of a star's image as a commodity of their societal myths and ideologies has the extraordinary power to exert messages so that even the smallest details become significant yet not overtly obvious. How a star's image is produced and then consumed can justify a society's relationship with that image and therefore aid in explaining the social construction of what society deems as their 'reality'. A star's image is created through a range of representations churned out by Hollywood. Capitalism from the commercialization of these images has made Hollywood the dominant force it is

Young’s mother and my mother naturally jump to the worst possible conclusions they can muster. For example, when I go to the fair each year, my mother never fails to repeat the list of, “Keep your purse in front of you at all times. Don’t touch the toilet handles with your hands. Do you have money? Stay away from anyone that looks scary”. The lineup seems to grow each year. However, I always find myself ceaselessly duplicating my mother’s words in my subconscious. I find this act similar to Young’s thoughts in paragraph two where as she begins to go out to sea, her mother’s voice rings inside her head without end. Although the list of cautions can be bothersome, I find myself using the lessons given to me by my mother on a daily basis. I relate to Young’s work on influential people in my life. The essay “The Undercurrent” helps me better understand that even though my mother and I may have disagreements, she is always looking out for my best interest. I have also come to the realization that I may be more collateral to my mother than I ever

In Leah Hager Cohen’s, essay “Words Left Unspoken”, the author begins her story with a special memory she had as a child with her grandfather and their ability to communicate with each other and not let his inability to speak hinder their relationship. Cohen uses a variety of descriptive words throughout the essay makes the reader usage of their other senses, feel they are part of the memories.

Dawnette is a mother of five children. She took on this identity role at the age of 20yrs old. This identity has molded her into a better person by being selfless, wanting her children to look up to her as a role model. She has failed in this role of a mother numerous times and fallen short of her expectations she admits. This identity has also brought out all of her emotions from happy to the extreme opposite of irate. It is a learning experience and an ongoing changing of her identity as a mom. With the changing of ages of her children from year to year. She can remember a time when her 16yr old daughter played beauty salon with her sister and cut all of her sister’s hair off; after they had used all of their mother’s makeup and destroyed it. The mixed emotions of anger and frustration from that experience will never be forgotten. She has also experienced her oldest son this last year proudly receive his diploma at his high

The idea of family is something that most people strive to have, and they travel amazing journeys and make difficult sacrifices in order to maintain the integrity of their family. The bonds of family can motivate a person to make large changes for the betterment of their family. In many cases a person will sever a piece of their self in order to maintain the integrity of their family. People will go through great lengths to maintain their families, as is evident in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and “Intervention” by Jill McCorkle.

A “Good” Obsession A lot of people feel that celebrity obsessions are good and healthy. This is what Collin Palmer, in his short essay response to Deborah King, argues. I, however, disagree with Palmer because one simple celebrity obsession can ruin someone’s life.

I was ashamed of my thick accent, and dark skin: my eccentricities. My lunches were eaten in urine infested bathroom stalls and I was victim to juvenile taunts. During a class discussion we were asked to state our favorite food. I stated the most quintessentially American dish I could think of, a burger. My accent did not cooperate, however, and I animatedly pronounced burger as booger to clamorous and unified laughter. During middle school, I was unremittingly confronted with condescending questions ranging from, “how big was your hut” to “did you have a pet lion’. I flippantly replied to the latter by stating that my mother did not allow a pet lion due to financial restrictions. My family’s lack of wealth essentially served as a detriment to my experience. I wore large and tattered hand-me-downs and was driven to school in my father’s garish taxicab, thus I was persistently the center of negative attention. One morning, my twin and I, asked him to begin to park far away from the school entrance due to our mere embarrassment. He reacted with an unexpected nonchalance, as though he had anticipated our

For thousands of years people have obsessed over celebrities. In Collin Palmer’s short essay response, he suggests that Deborah King exaggerates the harm of a celebrity obsession. I agree with Palmer because even though we students may obsess over some famous people, to us it is just harmless fun.

This picture is a perfect portrayal of celebrity culture in today’s era. The desire to be virtually ‘connected’ and share everything in one’s life is the new trend. And this has resulted from the constant competition from the new community of ‘microcelebrities’, which is based on achieving fame through broadcasting oneself through media. One of the demeaning aspect of the picture is the lack of genuineness and enforcement of stylish lifestyle on the audience which makes it loose the emotional quotient.

“Like her I unravel my story, and the longer the thread, the less there is left to tell” (63).

A star’s image is a concept carefully molded by the celebrity himself or herself with the aid of many factors such as audience reception and current ideological trends. Star image, by definition, given by O’Shaughnessy and Stadler, is “the qualities, ideals, and values that a star represents, based on their films and other performances, and on media information circulated about them” (430). A change of star image encompasses the sum of everything we, as in the audience, affiliate with that star. That means changing the star’s body of work, promotion, publicity, and audience practices. These factors put together is also known as star text (Professor Josh Jackson, September 8, 2016, University of California, Berkeley). Jennifer Lawrence had a particular star text before she took on the role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and was instead known for her role of Ree Dolly in Winter’s Bone. This new role launched Lawrence into a different star text she was previously known for. Though it seemed like the change is solely based on her landing an already popular role, the change in her star text is still calculated in order for her to maintain a certain image that landed her at the top of the celebrity social ladder. This careful manipulation of a celebrity’s image as she takes on a role that guaranteed a big impact on her acting career demonstrates how a star’s image is important when it comes to maintaining what the celebrity, and everyone who is working with that

The four pink walls that I stared at everyday until I was at the age of nine trapped me from my dreams, passions, originality, and youth. Outside those walls my life consisted of going to school smiling away the truth, then shortly after going home to take care of my baby sister or to see my mom with a coffee cup in her hand that sometimes contain funny smelling juice in it, and having a constant battle with a belt or anything my mom could get her hands on. Growing with my mother meant growing up in an abusive home, but that wasn’t the obstacle I had to face. Bumps and bruises will go away, but words will last an eternity whether that be in a physical place or spiritual realm, words will always hurt more than sticks and stones.

Since the entertainment industry is a huge industry individuals have resulting into marketing the ideal version of themselves to the public. I’m not trying to say that this is a new concept, but it is amplified within this social sphere. Through this idea of branding a personality an individual can become social media famous (insta-famous to be more specific since it is the main social media platform that is first and foremost for photos). This presenting on “the digital stage” is not just the posts, but also the “story” (insta-story/snapchat) where one can regularly post and share images that will disappear in matter of 24 hours. Take that idea of capturing and presenting with the consumption of other individuals “stories” and it creates a toxic mind set of self judgement and conformant. This double consciousness in combination with Brecht’s alienation effect brings out the harmful effects of social media with allow this alienation to occur due to the lack of force driving us to interact with one another for survival. This disregard for other individuals can be seen as privilege since one has the option to opt out of dealing with certain people or things in real time and interact or communication with the world wide web which is at their fingertips. Unsure how to end since I have much more to write, I leave the reader to be mindful of their false memories that images can present. Thank

How sad if this is actually true, if a celebrity decides to downgrade a teenager for a diasblity they can't control. First off individuals with autism and all other disablities are actually smarter than you may believe. They see this world for what it really is and more. I am tired of people making it seem like being different is a bad thing when actually normality is. A lot of disabled individuals are in college, have a family, and some are wealthy despite they're disablities. For you to point out they're dissimilarity between what you feel is acceptable and what they are is a

This article name "Are Americans too focused on celebrities?" was written by Howard Altman in 2005. Although it was written eleven years ago, the study still reflects the society nowadays. It embraces celebrity culture and folk's reaction toward celebrity. By the comparing between two kinds of different news: one is about politic, government, and world issue, another one is about celebrity's live and scandal. The survey shows that American spend much more attention to celebrity than country's issue and society. At the result, the media focus on discovering celebrity news; there were thousand of articles about celebrity life, while only some news writes about the world news and situations. Moreover, the author also analyzes the effect of America's fascination with celebrity to society. I think this is the best source that I found because all of the information in the article is critical of my paper explain the connection between society and American culture. Also, it contains static, chard, and other studies which unbias and clear.