De la célébrité | Jean-Michel Espitallier

EAN : 9782266212960

Code sériel : 352

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 192

Size : 120 x 180 mm

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Fame

Jean-Michel Espitallier

Collection : Agora

Release date : 27/10/2016

Caustic or moving, we laugh – forced sometimes – at this new spectacle of the “show biz” society, in which we have become actors (accomplices), more or less voluntarily.

In less than a century, fame has become the ultimate achievement in our society. Anonymity, on the contrary, is beginning to seem like a defect that resembles a form of excommunication. We
would love to resist, to explain these recent phenomena through lessons of sociology, history, culture, reason… but to no... In less than a century, fame has become the ultimate achievement in our society. Anonymity, on the contrary, is beginning to seem like a defect that resembles a form of excommunication. We
would love to resist, to explain these recent phenomena through lessons of sociology, history, culture, reason… but to no avail: we are all caught up in the great wave of dreams and glitter.
Must one be copied to be credible? Visible to be alive? What is the nature of this devotion that tends to border on the sensation of love?

• From Babar to Amy Winehouse, the author appeals to our collective memory, analyzes certain aspects of our fascination, scrutinizes the values of our stars and interrogates the rampant “peoplisation” in our society in a playful way.