Good morning/afternoon students. Let me first congratulate you for being chosen for this semesters acting course here at Nida. I’m Tayla, your tutor for the semester. My position here today, is to clarify the confusion you have may have about the aspects of the acting career. Many of you may think the fame comes as a part of being an actor. After many years of working in this industry, I can tell you with emphasis fame is truly only a media creation. ‘The state of being widely known or recognized’ (TheFreeDictionary.com, 2014) justifies faultlessly what fame is. Think to yourself for a second, how would we know about any of the celebrities without the media? Accept if we know them in person of course. Without the media, there would be no fame and the publicity fame brings, does not always bring the best out in people. Fame is solely a media creation.
Fame does not always bring out the best in people. For example, Lindsay Lohan. The media created Lindsay to be famous after her roll in Herbie: Fully Loaded and Mean Girls. We all know how poor she is at acting, but the media still created her to be famous. As her status started to grow, she was arrested multiple times, some of those being after crashing her car into a tree and allegedly engaging in a car chase with her former personal assistant’s mother. The media does not always bring out the best in people. She had what you could say, a party lifestyle. She was caught with drugs, driving under the influence and many more felonies. The media created Lindsay to be famous. Which led her on to a path of crime. She then went to rehab. Being a famous actress, the media published all of her felonies and her presence in rehab. The media foregrounded Lindsay as an unstable person. Everyon...
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The media privileges a person and their views and present them in a particular way for a purpose, to seek attention. The media will create an attention-grabbing story to draw the reader in and want to hear more. I hope you take home an insight to what fame really is. If you want to be in the acting business for the fame, forget it. There are many actors out there that are great at there job, but aren’t famous. There are many actors that aren’t so good at their job, but are famous. So is fame the same as celebrity or notoriety? From the few examples I’ve given you, is has been established that fame is the same as notoriety, meaning well known for a bad quality or deed. Look at Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. The media made a representation of them that they are known for. Therefore fame is undeniably a media creation.
Many people might say that stars are merely a product of the Hollywood system needing to make a profit; Hollywood manufactures a product and creates the demand for it. A star's image is processed through advertisements and promotions and has little to do with what the audience wants and needs from entertainment. There is a widespread mentality that any Average Joe can become a star with enough resources backing him up. Richard Dyer points out, however, that even movies full of stars fail, and stars can and do fall out of fashion (12). A star's economic worth is not invulnerable to audiences' opinions. The audience isn't so easily controlled.
Marshall P. David (1997). Celebrity Power; Fame in Contemporary Culture. May 16, 2010. Electronically retrieved from
All fame begins when you do something noticeable. For example, actors and actresses build upon their careers and reputations by achieving excellence in their personal goals, as well as perfecting their public performance.
We can become famous via Facebook or our second lives and it seems easier now to become famous because of the internet. Now days there are more and more reality shows and those were just normal people who lived interesting lives. Those normal people now have a TV show, what will happen if we all get TV shows about our lives. Still, there are still classic actors who actually know how to do their job rather than just a reality show. No matter what these actors or non-actors do, we still aspire to be
Intro: Deceiving lies, undesirable drama, repulsive articles. All of this and more is sadly playing a part of being a celebrity in the tabloids today. The falsehoods that are fed to the public are useless and foolish. The media manipulates celebrity stories for more interest from viewers.
Elements of pop culture are integrated into many parts of daily life. They are seen within news broadcasts, in the clothes people wear, and talked about during classroom lessons. Therefore it is logical that television would be a practical medium for promoting the idea of attainable fame for ordinary people through reality talent shows like America’s Got Talent, The Voice, American Idol and many more. Despite only producing a handful of major stars, TV talent shows are generally successful in helping kick start the careers of their contestants.
From Pro – athletics to actors to singers, we are able to see their rise and fall of stardom in the media. Magazines, the internet, and television shows allow people to hear and see the daily lives of our favorite stars. Having your life constantly watched does not allow for any mistakes to made because people will be watching and judging if you do anything the causes conflicted. Stardom depends on how many people are interested and want to pay attention. As humans our nature is to make mistakes, learn from the mistakes and grow into the person you are to become.
Stints as a child model and commercial actress brought Lohan into the spotlight at the age of three. As she transitioned from childhood to adulthood, it was becoming much more difficult to make such an appearance in the media that she had as a child. “The mass-media sets the public agenda; they are the ones who, as a result of their social event selection and focusing system, assign the priority of the discussion topics on the agenda” (Pachef, 2010). Thus, everything she had done in her personal life the media had documented, making sure the public masses were aware of Lohan. From her drug abuse to her nightlife stories, the media had it. When she even knew she had enough, the media couldn’t let go because they had absorbed so much popularity and power from the public masses from all the stories behind Lohan. Instead of focusing on her recovery, she wanted to feed the media through her actions because it was her only choice to steal the spotlight. The media as well had distorted the image of Lohan on and off the screen, whether it was shooting a new film to having lunch with her parents, by making her look like this “Scarlet A” individual whom society dislikes. The mass media establishes the topics that are worth being acknowledged, and the public is interested in the topics that circulate in the mass media.
The perks of illimitable wealth, vacationing all over the world, housekeepers, chefs, being in receipt of freebies from designers, multiple homes in diverse parts of the world, chauffeurs, the finest foods, and all the other perks that come with being a celebrity? Do they all sound attractive? Sure they do, to those of us who want to live the fabulous life. The question is do we want the downfalls that come with fame? Can we handle vicious tabloid scrutiny, fabrications, and assumptions? Being a celebrity has its perks, but at what cost? Fame and mon...
Many people see the life with fame as a great life, yet, most of the time, it is not as glamorous as it seems. Life choices of many celebrities were not the best. Through the years, these celebrities have been more open about life behind the scenes, but people still think they have a great life. Life with fame is not as what it seems. Life with fame leads to negative paparazzi encounters, haters, and poor personal choices and issues.
The concept of celebrity illustrates the power of media industry to transform real people into celebrities by dramatizing their life, creating a stage for their ordinary actions and shaping them into media narratives. Celebrity has also demonstrated the shifts in global media industries, which have expanded the scope for achieving fame and this has impacted on the lives of youths in 21st century.
According to Epstein, a celebrity is something or someone who can be talented and full of achievements and yet wish to broadcast ones fame further through the careful cultivation of celebrity, while one can be the total opposite of achievements and be less talented and yet still be made seem otherwise through the mechanics and dynamics of celebrity creation (Epstein2). Celebrity culture today is epidemic; some might agree that it is sweeping up America in a harmful way, while one might argue that it is beneficial to our society. Over the last few decades, celebrity and fame has changed dramatically, from Alexander the Great to Kim Kardashian. Talent and achievements no longer play a huge role when it comes to celebrities. “Much modern celebrity seems the result of careful promotion or great good looks or something besides talent and achievement” (Epstein2) with that being said celebrity-creation has blossomed into an industry of its own.... ...
Celebrity by definition means “a person, who has a prominent profile and commands some degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media” (Merriam Dictionary). Numerous teenagers today have an inaccurate definition of a celebrity; they observe them as idols in situations such as what to wear, how to date and even future careers. These prominent celebrities and their influence in social media are apparent. Through this, teens are given the opportunity to follow short term relationships, drugs, ridiculous fights and alcohol consumption, exhibited by the many celebrities admired today, viewing this as an ideal lifestyle. In the article,” Negative influences of Celebrities on Teens,” Alyssa Gauna claims that celebrities demonstrate negative influence on teens, which can be validated through the way teenagers’ perception of themselves and reality is ultimately configured.
For many, fame is synonymous to being exceptionally good-looking, talented, and rich or being born to rich parents. For the most part, renowned people achieved their status because of their contributions to the society, be it through their inventions, innovations, public service, or by sharing their performing talents to the world. While there are others who continuously strived to become famous, there are those who just lived life according to their own rules and it was fame that sought them.
According to Steven Knowlton, author of Moral Reasoning for Journalists, "Celebrities of all sorts-musicians, athletes, entertainers, and others-make their living from the public and the public therefore in a sense employs them, just as it employs governors and presidents..."(54). Most journalists figure that celebrities voluntarily surrender their pr...