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The Politics of Contemporary Celebrity
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The Politics of Contemporary Celebrity Understanding Celebrity, by Graeme Turner, Sage Publications, 2004.
In the holiday special finale of the popular BBC mockumentary series The Office., the odious hero David Brent is seen trying to turn the notoriety he gained from being on television into a career as a D-list celebrity. The joke, of course, is that Brent is completely and utterly talentless, and that this does not really prevent him from being just enough of a celebrity to embarrass himself spectacularly. Indeed, the central joke of the main character of The Office plays on the explosive growth of a new class of celebrity, in which a growing number of seemingly ordinary and …
