The Reasons Why Many People in the Late 20th Century are so Attracted to Celebrities

It is a well-known fact that ageing is an inevitable process in the course of the human lifespan and that it is being perceived differently across diverse cultures in different eras. Many social actions and responsibilities come with certain age milestones but they all vary in different cultures and what is seemingly normal in one culture regarding age might be considered absurd in another. This essay will explore how different these ideas about age are and what cross cultural examples can tell us about age.

The 1950s are a period marked by unadulterated family bliss and happy days. Consumer goods became more affordable, sparking the purchase of houses in the suburbs, cars, washing machines, radio, and cameras. Television captivated the nation and that old time rock and roll shook center stage. Many people greatly influenced pop culture during the 1950s, one of whom was Marilyn Monroe. She was famous for playing the “dumb blonde” character, but her great intellect and her cutting-edge confidence changed pop culture forever. Marilyn Monroe, with her all American attributes and streamlined sexuality, came to epitomise in a single image this complex interface of the economic, the political, and the erotic. By the mid 1950s, she stood for a brand of classless glamour, available to anyone using American cosmetics, nylons and peroxide.

"The Roaring Twenties”, "The Era of Wonderful Nonsense", "The Decade of the Dollar" , "The Period of the Psyche", "Dry Decade" and the age of "Alcohol and Al Capone”, these slogans are all ways to describe the 1920’s in just a few words. (The 1920s: Lifestyles and Social Trends: Overview) The 1920’s were a decade of parties, money, and extravagant lifestyles. The decade portrayed the American Dream of women, money, alcohol, music, and partying. In the twenties dresses were shorter, alcohol was illegal, and parties were a given. New fashion trends and music, infamous and dignified names, and unforgettable scandals are what remain of the extravagant post WWI decade. If you were alive

A celebrity is not a person known for his/her talent or achievement, but an individual recognized for his/her reputation created by the media. The phase of stardom is slippery, and media may choose to represent celebrities varying from exaggerated admiration to mockery. The three texts chosen, movie "Sunset Boulevard", feature article "Over the Hilton" and television show "Celebrity Uncensored Six" are texts presenting different perception of celebrities than their usual images - either corrupted by the encircling media, overloads oneself with self-indulgence, or just mocks celebrity in a broad spectrum. Such media items empower and impresses the audience by perceiving celebrities as people who pay the price of privacy to gain well

Men and women of every age have a particular liking or even obsession with a celebrity or individual they have seen on mass media productions. Whether it’s from the news, movies, tv entertainment, music or even sports, these attachments to people are formed because of a fondness of a taken persona of that person. Author, Gayle S. Stever, dives into these parasocial relationships in the field of broadcasting and media and figures out if these affiliations are evolutionary or socially mediated behaviors in his article Evolutionary Theory and Reactions to Mass Media: Understanding Parasocial Attachment. Looking at the general field this author talks about it is assumed and known that broadcasting and media writings are done in a humanities perspective;

Newton Minow knew what he was talking about when he gave a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters in 1961. He referred to the influence of the television as “This is an awesome power. It has limitless capabilities for good - and for evil.”

So they were known as celebrities back then as we see celebs now a days.

Celebrities are a huge element in today’s society that a world without them is even hard to imagine because we are so accustom to seeing them all the time and everywhere we go whether it is in television, magazines and especially in social media. They have this power that we, as a society allow them to have and they are able to influence us all in different ways sometimes without themselves even realizing the impact they have. The role they have is so huge that we are constantly wanting to know everything about them, what they wear, what they eat and what they are doing. Celebrities are a part of our culture and it is hard to ignore the fact that we look up to them, it is as if they were up on a pedestal making them so much more important

The 1900s were known as both an influential and memorable century when talking about the inspiration on how the American culture is today. This paper will mainly discuss the influences of beauty, fashion, and music from specific decades that are deemed to show the changes in American culture today.

The first effect of celebrities is the way they change tweens and teens’ s mind about an ideal image. Celebrities who always appear in front of many people with beautiful appearances and perfect bodies. Everyone usually want to have a perfect body like a “S-size” or “Coca - cola bottle”. And the famous people become their ideal models.

In Ralph Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance”, he claims that individuals are not likely to follow their own views, but rather someone else’s, his claim is viable in today because society has created an increase in insecurity for those who follow their own view.

According to Ishikawa, “ narcissism is a personality trait that involves regarding yourself as a superior being. It brings, with it a sense of entitlement……” (as cited in Campbell, W, Keith & Baumeister, R, F 2008, July 5)

People look up to celebrities as role models, the youth especially. The youth believes that if they imitate these cynosures they will become affluent and legendary. Famous people imply that if the youth act insubordinately they will be successful in life. Celebrities of today are not appropriate role models for this generation.

In contemporary world people live in interesting times of famous persons: politicians, pop stars, models, actors and so on. The person to whom my research is directed is 18 years

The idea of having a role model is something society loves to champion. Kids should have role models, and adults should strive to be worthy of such a duty. Kids that don’t grow up with strong role models and mentors are almost expected to fail; without footsteps to follow exactly, kids are incapable of, or at least unlikely to, achieve anything worth of substance. In the same breath, people advocating the importance of role models condemn the expansion of celebrity in today’s society, claiming that they influence youth poorly and don 't set a good example for younger generations. But celebrities are the very people that young children are most likely to use as role models. So, how and why does this relationship between celebrities and youth exist?