Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 157 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231145403
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0231518587
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9780231145404
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9780231518581
Content:
Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly & mdash;the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voyeuristic and zealously guarded. With skill and humor, Daniel Herwitz pokes at the gears of the celebrity-making machine, recruiting a philosopher's interest in the media, an eye for society, and a love of popular culture to divine our yearning for these iconic figures and the role they pla
Content:
Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Candle in the Wind; 2. There Is Only One Star Icon (Except in a Warhol Picture); 3. Therefore Not All Idols Are American; 4. A Star Is Born; 5. The Film Aura: An Intermediate Case; 6. Stargazing and Spying; 7. Teleaesthetics; 8. Diana Haunted and Hunted on TV; 9. Star Aura in Consumer Society (and Other Fatalities); Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231145403
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231145404
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Herwitz, Daniel Star as Icon : Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 ISBN 9780231145404
Language:
English
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