books.google.com - `Graeme Turner is one of the leading figures in cultural studies today. When his gaze turns to celebrity, the result is a readable and compelling account of this most perplexing and infuriating of modern phenomena. Read on!' - Toby Miller, New York University We cannot escape celebrity culture: it is...http://books.google.com/books/about/Understanding_Celebrity.html?id=oEUWXquuLSYC&q=function+of+celebrity&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareUnderstanding Celebrity
