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Uni’s focus on fame
Jun 22 2008 by Michael Kelly, Sunday Sun
FURTHER proof that celebrity obsessed Britain is disappearing up one of its orifices.
Past and present female stars have become a subject for academics who will gather to discuss them at East Anglia University, hosted by its School of Film and Television studies.
They will talk about the effects of an age of celebrity on the feminist struggle for equality in more than 30 sessions. Titles include “Britney’s Tears: the Abject Female Celebrity in Postemotional Society” and “Mia Farrow Goes Bananas: Accusations of Obsessive Mothering in the Woody and Mia Scandal”.
However, my favourite — which takes the art of navel gazing to a whole new part of the body — is: “Janis Joplin’s Erect Left Nipple”.
Nice work if you can get it.
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