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Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption: Early Photoplay

Sumiko Higashi
Journal: Feminist Media Histories
Feminist Media Histories (2017) 3 (4): 126–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.4.126
Published: 01 October 2017
... about glamour and buy fetishized goods, Photoplay constructed stardom as a basis of consumer capitalism. advertising celebrity female fans middlebrow culture Photoplay social classes © 2017 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests...
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“It's Your Face That Is Carrying You Through!”: Class, Gender, and Celebrity in Nancy Astor's 1919 Campaign for Parliament

Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Journal: Feminist Media Histories
Feminist Media Histories (2016) 2 (4): 64–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2016.2.4.64
Published: 01 October 2016
... face that is carrying you through!” figures nowhere in discussions of women's entry into formal political life there. Astor's rejoinder, “No, it's the heart behind it,” points to a tension in her candidacy and subsequent political career that is characteristic of modern celebrity: between...
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