@article{339942,
      author = {Bell, Christopher E.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/339942},
      title = {American idolatry : celebrity, commodity and reality  television /},
      publisher = {McFarland & Co.,},
      abstract = {"This book explores the process by which celebrity is  created, using the first seven seasons of Fox Television's  American Idol as a framework through which to analyze how  celebrity is defined, generated, nurtured, and intensified.  A model is then suggested for interpreting the particular  type of celebrity created on American Idol"--Provided by  publisher.},
      recid = {339942},
      pages = {xi, 219 p. ;},
      address = {Jefferson, N.C. :},
      year = {2010},
}