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ABSTRACT
This essay examines the current perspectives on celebrity history, following the varied theoretical understandings of historicisation in particular. The critical analysis of different approaches allows for the distinguishment of the major problem entailed by historicising celebrity. In order to avoid it, I propose a broader perspective of fame history. As presented later, the shift of focus towards fame rather than celebrity was foreshadowed in many milestone works on celebrity history before. The final part of the text offers a methodological tool that could serve as a bridge between different traditions dealing with celebrity and other kinds of fame.
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1. History of the Walk of Fame [online]. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Available at: walkoffame.com [Accessed 16 March, 2018].
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Adrian D. Wesołowski
Adrian D. Wesołowski is a PhD Candidate at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology within the International Max Planck Research School for Anthropology, Archeology, and History of Eurasia (IMPRS ANARCHIE) and at Historical Department of Warsaw University. In 2017, he was awarded the z Brzezia Lanckorońscy Foundation research grant.