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Accidental Celebrity? Constructing of Fame in Post-War Croatia

Aim of this paper is to show different type of production of celebrity. Case of popular singer Marko Perković Thompson shows that unlike popularity in the west that is produced through the news about private life of popular persona, in Croatia avoiding of private life can lead to popularity. Reasons for such difference can be traced in symbolic split in the society presented in the oppositions such as: foreign/home, left/right, folk/elite, traditional/modern. To publicly stand for one of the parts always include some kind of transgression. Thompson as public sign constantly provokes such transgression and gains public appearance without effort of PR experts. In that way he became a sign around which different social discourses collide. As long as his private persona is hidden more interpretation is publicly produced.

celebrity ; nationalism ; victimhood ; transgression ; tradition

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