But I very much had these people — the biggest losers and
winners of celebrity culture — in the back of my mind as I decided how I wanted to tell it.
Public, Private, Secret does lay out both the negative
impacts of celebrity culture, surveillance, porn, voyeurism, social media, et al. upon both our sense of personal privacy and our image - making habits but it is also about the agency of «being seen» and the social impact of widespread self - representation and alterity.
Next to preppy golden child Kate Spade, Juicy Couture became lacklustre, but in its glory days the bedazzled track suiter to the stars captured the
zeitgeist of celebrity culture.
Trump is the absolute, sort of, final
arch of celebrity culture that we saw beginning in 1984 when he rose to now, when the reality show ethos has just reached its apotheosis, if you like, and he is that person.
To those most appalled by the prospect of a President Trump, it's an ugly manifestation of America's bigoted id, or the
triumph of celebrity culture over substance, or a product of a broken information ecology in which acceptance of facts is optional.
My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne and Yeezus represented a hard thematic turn: They deal with the
opulence of celebrity culture and the intoxicating power of wealth and fame — as well as, ultimately, all of the inner darkness they can bring forth.
Unless lessons are learned, there is nothing stopping the contemporary church form being lured int the
elixir of celebrity culture and sidelining Christ and the bible.
The Royals as victims of unfair public pressure («the system is unfair to the Royals themselves as much as anybody» is a more powerful one post-the 1990s, and with our particular
form of celebrity culture (which the Royals have themselves used post the 1960s with the first family argument).
Less outre than «Gummo» and «Julien Donkey - Boy,» Korine's most lavishly produced pic to date begins as a sweet - tempered tale of social misfits - turned - celebrity impersonators, but falls short of its ambition to say something meaningful about the obsessive
nature of celebrity culture.
Grammy - winning disc jockey, producer and songwriter Diplo comments on the
lack of celebrity culture in Cuba, where he performed for the Sundance documentary «Give Me Future.
While appearing at the SXSW Film Festival for the local premiere of «Bernie,» Black revealed he didn't know how soon shooting was set to begin, but he characterized the film to The Playlist as an incisive
portrait of celebrity culture.
Initially it feels like that's the direction Zoolander 2 is going to go — the
conflating of celebrity culture and reality brought on by social media and the digital age.
Franco, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and an ensemble of their famous friends all play themselves, lampooning each other and the
folly of celebrity culture.
Rock explores the insanity and
inanity of celebrity culture vs. artistic integrity with Top Five, and while his previous two directorial efforts, Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife, never really connected with audiences (though I do like the latter), he's a more natural fit here essentially satirizing aspects of his daily existence as a comedian and actor.
Take the
rise of celebrity culture for example; ask a group of young people what they want to be when they grow up and chances are several of them will say, «I want to be famous.»
Convinced that everyone from his agent, friends, and bums on the street are portrayed by famous actors, Self goes undercover into the dangerous
world of celebrity culture.
For her imminent solo exhibition «I Rose Madder» at John McAslan + Partners (5 October to 10 November), Trish casts herself as the hero, putting a post-feminist twist on the Country & Western movie genre from the point of view of a female artist living through an
era of celebrity culture obsessed with the perfect female image.
Her paintings predicted key cultural shifts: the end of television in its 20th - century form, the beginning of reality / confessional pop culture, the emergence and
dominance of celebrity culture.»
Suggesting the self -
consciousness of celebrity culture, Ofili plays with the multivalent experience of his international recognition — the previous year he had been awarded the Turner Prize, the first black artist to have won and the only painter since Howard Hodgkin in 1985.
She highlights the
impact of celebrity culture, which leads to women only feeling valued «if they're are out socialising or working» after giving birth, when instead they «should be resting and caring for their babies, not getting on with what society wants them to do».