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Karen Sternheimer, "Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility" (Routledge, 2010)
It is hard to dispute that today there’s a heightened fascination with celebrities and their personal lives. Who cheated on whom, who’s getting married and what celebrity checked into to rehab is the stuff of daily headlines that many of…