The Exile of Britney Spears: A Tale of 21st Century by Chris Smit

By Chris Smit

What we devour issues: a end that's making extra feel as sustainability and eco-responsibility develop into a part of our daily cultural conversations. What we fail to achieve is that we devour – unconsciously, regularly, and, from time to time, violently – even more than meals. The Exile of Britney Spears: A story of Twenty-First Century intake explains that we have got fed on, digested, and eradicated Britney Spears in a approach uniquely attribute of yank pop culture. In Christopher Smit’s clarification of the sociological, aesthetic, and political results of this new mediated cannibalism; he bargains the belief of exile as a brand new metaphor for the end result of well known intake. by means of investigating the mental, own and social matrix of Britney’s upward thrust and fall (and upward thrust again?), he outlines the method of her inevitable exile from worldwide style and favour. whereas the booklet encourages the reader to work out Britney’s volition inside her narrative, it eventually works to provide an explanation for the bigger practices sure up with our intake of her lifestyles in the malleable context of latest media and electronic communication.

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