Samantha Barbas has a Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity (2001).
5 Ebooks by Samantha Barbas
Samantha Barbas: The First Lady of Hollywood
Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America’s premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of …
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Samantha Barbas: Laws of Image
Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the …
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Samantha Barbas: Newsworthy
In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, too …
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Samantha Barbas: Confidential Confidential
In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America’s first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars’ secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast …
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€23.79
Samantha Barbas: Actual Malice
‘A heroic narrative.’—One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023
‘A detailed examination of . . . the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision that defined libel laws and increased protections for jo …
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