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McClain, Amanda Scheiner.

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American ideal: How "American Idol" constructs celebrity, collective identity, and American discourses.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American ideal: How "American Idol" constructs celebrity, collective identity, and American discourses./
Author:	McClain, Amanda Scheiner.
Description:	383 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2280.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3408738
ISBN:	9781124052359

American ideal: How "American Idol" constructs celebrity, collective identity, and American discourses.
McClain, Amanda Scheiner.

American ideal: How "American Idol" constructs celebrity, collective identity, and American discourses. - 383 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2280.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2010.

This dissertation is a three-pronged study examining American themes, celebrity, and collective identity associated with the television program American Idol. The study includes discourse analyses of the first seven seasons of the program, of the season seven official American Idol message boards, and of the 2002 and 2008 show press coverage. The American themes included a rags-to-riches narrative, archetypes, and celebrity. The discourse-formed archetypes indicate which archetypes people of varied races may inhabit, who may be sexual, and what kinds of sexuality are permitted. On the show emotional exhibitions, archetypal resonance, and talent create a seemingly authentic celebrity while discourse positioning confirms this celebrity. The show also fostered a complication-free national American collective identity through the show discourse, while the online message boards facilitated the formation of two types of collective identities: a large group of American Idol fans and smaller contestant-affiliated fan groups. Finally, the press coverage study found two overtones present in the 2002 coverage, derision and awe, which were absent in the 2008 coverage. The primary reasons for this absence may be reluctance to criticize an immensely popular show and that the American Idol success was no longer surprising by 2008. By 2008, American Idol was so ingrained within American culture that to deride it was to critique America itself. In sum, the findings were that American Idol presents an ideal version of American culture, where gender, race, and class issues are non-existent, power is shared democratically, the American national identity is fair, generous, familial, and celebrity and success are easily attainable. This idealization of contemporary American culture functions to sustain the current status quo of economic and cultural standards.

ISBN: 9781124052359Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

American ideal: How "American Idol" constructs celebrity, collective identity, and American discourses.
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