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KARDASHIAN KULTURE

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SocietyNow

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KARDASHIAN KULTURE

How Celebrities Changed Life in the 21st Century

BY

ELLIS CASHMORE

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2019

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Acknowledgements

My work with Jamie Cleland and Kevin Dixon, in Screen Society, along with my solo books Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption, and Making Sense of Sports, have informed several passages of this book.