Celebrity CEOs and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy

Stardom and celebrity: A reader

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 230-243

  Littler, Jo ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446269534.n22     Document Type: Chapter

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