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Presumed intimacy : para-socialrelationships in media, society and celebrity culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rojek, Chris (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Social interaction.
Intimacy (Psychology) > Social aspects.
Celebrities.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Living with statistical men and women
  • Chimerical risk management
  • The shockwaves of trauma
  • The lost neighbour proposition and the collateral damage problem
  • Horizontal frontierism: the juggernaut of character
  • The accentuation of personality
  • Vertical frontierism: four case studies
  • Cracks in the mirror
  • The gestural economy
  • Institutional and counter-institutional gestural economies
  • Nuda veritas.