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Denzin, Norman K. Kohn, Nathaniel Herman 2011-05-07T13:25:03Z 2011-05-07T13:25:03Z 10000-01-01 1995 This work is a collection of stories about my encounters with celebrity, fame, and the culture industry. It is intensely autobiographical. Through writing about various critical moments in my life as a writer/producer of theatrical movies, I interpret my obsession with becoming a part of the motion picture and television industries. Using myself as exemplar, I examine the associated social phenomena from various points of view, including looking at the pursuit of celebrity as addiction and at celebrity itself as a third space, invoking Homi Bhabha's spatial metaphor. The collection of stories is heavily informed by critical theory and the post-colonial discourse, although not always overtly so. After Raymond Carver, the style of writing is minimalist, and much is said in the silent spaces between words--I employ silence as an evocative tool in the manner of such feminist and post-colonial writers as Trinh Minh-ha and Gayatri Spivak. And, while working within the form of the short story, I fight against that form, hoping to find not symmetry and closure, but polyphonic voices and astounding juxtapositions. Mingling spare dialogic interactions with thick description and coincidental popular culture texts, I promote a verisimilitude that encourages readers to enter the world I am creating while it presents them with new critical tools for exploring their own worlds in ways that matter. And, after Norman Denzin, I enter the texts through epiphanic moments of realization or sudden inspiration and use the process of writing about those moments to explore how I go about coming to terms with my various, ever-changing incarnations. Unanchored and free floating in a postmodern world, I reach no conclusions. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:25:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9543632.pdf: 6019884 bytes, checksum: c8516b00d35292ceefe6ed1fdd52fdd9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:54:30Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:25:19-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9543632 (UMI)AAI9543632 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21978 eng Copyright 1995 Kohn, Nathaniel Herman Sociology, Theory and Methods Literature, American Mass Communications Cinema A Part of it All. (Original writing); text Communications Communications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.