Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies - Paperbackby Anthony Elliott (Editor) Ours is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media saturated societies of the twenty first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy seductions. But there is also a darker side. Celebrity culture is littered from end to end with addictions, pathologies, neuroses, even suicides. Why, as a society, are we held in thrall to celebrity? What is the power of celebrity in a