Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over the World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy

Marina Hyde

Vintage, 2010 - Humor - 256 pages

'Celebrity' is a guide to a world in which it is considered reasonable that Angelina Jolie advises on the Iraqi reconstruction effort, Charlie Sheen analyses 9/11, and in which Jude Law's views on the Taliban are reported. Anatomising every aspect of our crazed world, 'Celebrity' tackles the big topics.

About the author

Marina Hyde read English at Christ Church, Oxford, and started in journalism as a temporary secretary on the Sun's showbiz desk. She has worked at the Guardian since 2000, where her three weekly columns - on sport, celebrity and politics - have won her a reputation as one of the funniest and most admired journalists in the UK. She lives in London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over the World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy
• Author: Marina Hyde
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vintage, 2010
• ISBN: 0099532050, 9780099532057
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Humor / General; Humor / Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture; Literary Criticism / Humor; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / General; Social Science / Popular Culture