Ferris- Seeing and Being Seen

Question 1

Pseudo-intimacy:

Answer 1

-Celebrities are technically strangers
- Delusion that we personally know them
-bc of a sense of familiarity

Question 2

Recognition work:
A) double take

Answer 2

-Beings with a sense of familiarity
-initially accords civil inattention but something warrants a second glance

Question 3

B) Great Expectations

Answer 3

-Not look the way we expect
-Less spectacular= unmet expectations
-Ordinary= difficult to recognize
-minimizes differences between seer and celebrity

Question 4

C) Proof Positive

Answer 4

-Visual verbal cue
-Certain in presence of celebrity