Lexington Books
Pages: 172
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-7715-0 • Hardback • October 2013 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-4985-2061-4 • Paperback • August 2015 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-7716-7 • eBook • October 2013 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Amanda Scheiner McClain is assistant professor of Communications and Coordinator of Arts and Communications at Holy Family University in Philadelphia, PA.
Chapter 1: The Family and the Business
Chapter 2: Family, Gender, and Transgressions
Chapter 3: Celebrity, Beauty, and Sexuality
Chapter 4: Social Media
Chapter 5: Journalistic Interpretation of the Kardashians
Chapter 6: Conclusion
McClain’s study provides an original and timely account of the production and commodification of fame and femininity in the twenty-first century.
— Journal of American Culture
This book is a much needed critical examination of a popular, highly integrated, cultural brand. As such, it goes well beyond a single analysis of a cultural phenomenon, and instead problematizes the integrations, representations, and constructions of family, sexuality, gender, materialism, media economics, and class, of a brand that is among the most successful in contemporary culture.
— Rebecca Kern-Stone, Manhattan College