Literature Review Worksheet

Essays included in the Literature Review:

"Getting to Know Us: an Introduction to the study of Popular Culture"

Gamson, Joshua.  “Explaining Angelyne”

Giles, David .“Identity Crisis” Illusions of Immortality: A Psychology of Fame and Celebrity.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Giles, David . “The Quest for Fame” Illusions of Immortality: A Psychology of Fame and Celebrity.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

"'Sometimes you wanna hate celebrities': tabloid readers and celebrity coverage"

"Intimate Fame Everywhere"

"A Journal in Celebrity Studies"

"The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity"

Two additional essays of your own choosing.**

Your literature reviews should include a Works Cited page in MLA documentation format.  Please note.  I have not provided you with all of the bibliographic information you will need to correctly cite each of these essays.  It is up to you to find the rest of the information on your own.  Use the information provided on the readings in Blackboard, Gelman’s databases, Google and  Amazon  in whatever combination you need to find the missing data. 

**How to find those two additional articles.

You can find these additional articles in several ways. As you identify keywords in the readings, you can use them to search Academic Search Premiere (Gelman website, Articles and Databases). This will provide you with additional readings that you already know have a good chance of working well with the focus you intend to take with the readings. (Think here about coming up with keywords from the course description during our library session. Choosing any four of those terms in combination will produce a different paper. For your literature review, you are doing the same thing - choosing four terms you have identified across the readings we've done thus far this semester.)

Alternatively, there are additional essays on Blackboard in Electronic Reserves/Fame and Celebrity folder. This is a more hit and miss approach, since these essays may or may not work with your own particular focus.