Celebrity culture and the American dream : stardom and social mobility / Karen Sternheimer.
Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xvi, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415886789 (hardback)
- 0415886783 (hardback)
- 9780415886796 (pbk.)
- 0415886791 (pbk.)
- 9780203831496 (e-book)
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- HN57 .S774 2011
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The American dream : celebrity, class, and social mobility -- Beyond subsistence : the rise of the middle class in the twentieth century -- Prosperity and wealth arrive : boom times and women's suffrage in the 1920s -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : personal failure and the Great Depression -- We're all in this together : collectivism and World War II -- Suburban utopia : the postwar middle class fantasy -- Is that all there is? : challenging the suburban fantasy in the sixties and seventies -- Massive wealth as moral reward : the reagan revolution and individualism -- Success just for being you : opportunity in the internet age.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274) and index.