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Celebrity Culture in the 20th Century

The Cold War ended in 1985 with Rocky IV. Did you notice a difference in how time was covering celebrity culture from like the 60s, 70s where it was a curiosity into the 80s and 90s where it basically became V culture? I think that was a super interesting story of the 20th century where media changes along with technological modality of media communications modality. And then you see that move to the television era which like the presidential cycle is really what shows how much the communication cycle moves.

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