Three Stories about Celebrities
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https://doi.org/10.12775/KH.2019.126.2.05Keywords
fame, celebrity, celebrities, historiography, celebrity studies, Julia Fawcett, Antoine LiltiAbstract
Czy sława to wartościowy przedmiot badań historycznych, czy na zawsze pozostanie w domenie ekspertyzy specjalistów od marketingu? Historiografia sławy i celebrytyzmu, żywa w anglosaskim dyskursie akademickim, na próby odcięcia refleksji historycznej od problematyki sławy odpowiada stanowczym: nie! Poniższy tekst jest zbiorczą recenzją trzech prac dotykających wspomnianej problematyki, jakie ukazały się w ostatnim czasie. Recenzji towarzyszy również próba oceny, na ile dane prace reprezentują najsilniejsze prądy w dziedzinie.
Is fame a valuable problem for historiography, or will it always remain in the domain of marketing experts? The English celebrity history, well-developed in the West, would react with a fervent refusal to any attempts at considering fame being thought ahistorical. This article is a review of three current works pertaining to the problem. Additionally, it attempts to determine whether a Polish historian can use its contents as fair examples of the current trends in celebrity history.
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