Overview
American Ideal: How American Idol Constructs Celebrity, Collective Identity, and American Discourses explores ideals associated with American Idol, and includes deep examinations of contextual press coverage, official message boards, and the show itself. It finds that the representation of an idealized American culture endorses and supports contemporary cultural, economic, and institutional ideologies, particularly values of celebrity, beauty, American identity, and capitalism.
- | Author: Amanda S. McClain
- | Publisher: Lexington Books
- | Publication Date: Nov 03, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 264 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0739164333
- | ISBN-13: 9780739164334
