Contents\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nList of Figures vi\\\\r\\\\nAcknowledgements viii\\\\r\\\\n1 Personal Worth and Public Attention 1\\\\r\\\\n2 ‘The Drama of a Recognition’: City Lights 35\\\\r\\\\n3 Imitations of Celebrity 55\\\\r\\\\n4 Women’s Pictures 83\\\\r\\\\n5 Melotrauma 105\\\\r\\\\n6 Melodrama, Celebrity, The Queen 125\\\\r\\\\n7 Home from the Hill: Weiner 145\\\\r\\\\n8 A Star Is Bor…
Preface: The New Aristocracy of Fame vii\\\\r\\\\n1 Celebrity Supernova 1\\\\r\\\\n2 The Fame Formula 27\\\\r\\\\n3 Celebrity and Sickness 35\\\\r\\\\n4 Charisma Gulch 58\\\\r\\\\n5 Exposure Management 78\\\\r\\\\n6 Supply Side Factors in Celebrity Infl ation 88\\\\r\\\\n7 Demand Side Factors 98\\\\r\\\\n8 Para-social Relationships 123\\\\r\\\\n9 The Icarus Complex 142\\\\r\\\\n10 Reality TV: T…