From : The Wall Street Journal
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Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote
From Lord Byron's escapades to Madonna's power dynamics—what is the fascination of the glittering famous?
The late anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously defined culture as an "ensemble of stories we tell about ourselves." By that reckoning, the tales of "Entertainment Tonight" are as much a part of culture as a Shakespeare play, and potentially just as meaningful.
It is not an altogether happy thought and one that, in minds less discerning than Geertz's, helped license a parade of academic folly marching under the banner of "cultural studies." From analyses of the power dynamics of Madonna to deconstructions of "Gilligan's Island," the field has produced work to make even the forgiving reader want to reach for a gun.
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