Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto

From the creator of the highly popular Kardashian Kolloquium comes a new media manifesto for the TikTok age, blending theory and cultural analysis to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and explore what their fame can teach us about the way media functions today “By far the best book I've ever read on celebrity in the twenty-first century.”—Leigh Stein, author of Self Care “Dekonstructing the Kardashians is Ways of Seeing for the Instagram Age. ”— Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 Since 2007, Kim Kardashian and the extended Kardashian family have been mesmerizing—and scandalizing—America. Whether we’ve liked it or not, we’ve been inundated with stories of their social lives, scandals, and reality show shenanigans and have witnessed the subsequent ascent of their multibillion-dollar fashion, beauty, and media empire. But the question remains: [...]Why...