Published on
November 9, 2010 in
Antiquity, Celebrity, Fame, Tom Payne and reviews.
Tags: A.V. Club, Antiquity, Book, celebrity, fame, Library Journal, Newsweek, Public radio, Publisher's Weekly, The Onion, tom payne, Wall Street Journal.
Click to read about Tom Payne’s Fame in ”Dying to Live Forever” (Newsweek) Nothing seems more modern than society’s relentless obsession with reality-show stars, Hollywood tweets, and tabloid scandals. But a wildly entertaining new book by former Daily Telegraph literary editor Tom Payne suggests that our celebrity culture has rather old roots. In Fame, Payne draws provocative parallels between 21st-century stardom [...]
Published on
October 25, 2010 in
Antiquity/Celebrity, Fame and Tom Payne.
Tags: A.V. Club, Antiquity, celebrity, fame, Kate Winslet, Mythologies, Review, Roland Barthes, semiotics, The Onion, tom payne.
Click here to read the full review – Fame: What The Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity (A.V. Club Review) Excerpt: “[...] Fame isn’t a simple reduction of modern celebrity culture to we’ve-seen-this-before status, or a cheap attempt to fuse philosophy to the flavor of the month. Payne’s questions and answers have a distinctly [...]
