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Book Review


Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890–1940. By Charles L. Ponce de Leon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 325 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2729-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5403-4.)
Charles L. Ponce de Leon has written an exemplary history of a key genre of journalism often ignored by histories of news. Anchoring his discussion of celebrity news in a sophisticated analysis of fame, modernity, and the public sphere, he identifies a maturing set of archetypal personae and narratives (news scholars would say frames) emerging from a symbiotic interaction between reporters and celebrities. He credits such journalism, appearing in new mass-circulation newspapers and magazines after 1890, with creating the modern celebrity system. . . .
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