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Book Review: (Not) Very Important People: Millennial Fantasies of Mobility in the Age of Excess
Media and Communication, Vol.10(1), pp.297-300
2022
Abstract
In her fascinating but frustrating new book, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, American sociologist, Ashley Mears (2020) offers both academic and mainstream readers a titillating, cross-over tour around the "cool" nightclub and party scene of the "global elite." It is perhaps not so much global, however, as American, in the sense of the heteropatriarchal, middle-aged, male, working rich of America (or more precisely of its financial capital New York), jetting into their traditional party hotspots of Miami, Saint-Tropez, or the French Riviera, to party with young women who are (indirectly) paid (in-kind) to pose with them. Whether intentional or unintentional, along the way Mears also offers a dark mirror to the fears and fantasies of a rather lost millennial generation, raised in a new media, image age, which has coupled fast and furious performative excess to old fashioned sexual objectification, in the guise of fun and empowerment for the beautiful people.
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- Title
- Book Review: (Not) Very Important People: Millennial Fantasies of Mobility in the Age of Excess
- Authors
- Susan Hopkins - University of Southern Queensland
- Publication details
- Media and Communication, Vol.10(1), pp.297-300
- Publisher
- Cogitatio Press
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.17645/mac.v10i1.4778
- ISSN
- 2183-2439
- Copyright note
- © 2022 by the author(s); licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This book review is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991136802702621
- Output Type
- Review
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