definition

Plutography is a word coined by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...

 to categorize books and other media that describe the lives of rich and famous people, often uncritically. He used the term to describe the television serial Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)

Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. The teleplay is based on Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited...

and Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a...

. . Perhaps the most famous example of plutographic media is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, hosted by Robin Leach. Livin' Large, MTV Cribs, and The Fabulous Life Of constitute a new generation of plutographic television. Magazines such as Robb Report and Millionaire are also well-known plutographic media.

Greek breakdown

Plutography combines the prefix pluto- (from the Greek word ploutos, "wealth") with the suffix -graphy (from the Greek verb graphein, "to write").