Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand

Informationen zum Autor By Amanda Scheiner McClain Klappentext The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world, connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. This book explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press presence. This three-pronged study of Kardashian media permits insights into contemporaneous American culture, namely societal norms, values, and ideologies, as well as structural and cultural aspects of cross-platform brand creation. This book is a much needed critical examination of a popular, highly integrated, cultural brand. As such, it goes well beyond a single analysis of a cultural phenomenon, and instead problematizes the integrations, representations, and constructions of family, sexuality, gender, materialism, media economics, and class, of a brand that is among the most successful in contemporary culture. -- Rebecca Kern-Stone, Manhattan College Chapter 1: The Family and the Business Chapter 2: Family, Gender, and Transgressions Chapter 3: Celebrity, Beauty, and Sexuality Chapter 4: Social Media Chapter 5: Journalistic Interpretation of the Kardashians Chapter 6: Conclusion

Autorentext

By Amanda Scheiner McClain

Klappentext

The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world, connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. This book explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press presence. This three-pronged study of Kardashian media permits insights into contemporaneous American culture, namely societal norms, values, and ideologies, as well as structural and cultural aspects of cross-platform brand creation.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Family and the Business Chapter 2: Family, Gender, and Transgressions Chapter 3: Celebrity, Beauty, and Sexuality Chapter 4: Social Media Chapter 5: Journalistic Interpretation of the Kardashians Chapter 6: Conclusion