20th Century Culture – My World of Interiors

A Hundred Stars: The Twentieth Century’s Constellation

On the Making of Modern Stardom The twentieth century did not merely produce stars; it manufactured the conditions in which stardom could exist. A set of new technologies—cinema, radio, the LP, television—met a set of modern habits: mass attention, reproducible image, a hunger for personality that could stand in for the unruly whole of culture.Continue reading “A Hundred Stars: The Twentieth Century’s Constellation”