The Star as Icon : : Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption / / Daniel Herwitz.
Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly-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 voyeuris...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) :; 5 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- One. The Candle in the Wind
- Two. There Is Only One Star Icon (Except in a Warhol Picture)
- Three. Therefore Not All Idols Are American
- Four. A Star Is Born
- Five. The Film Aura: An Intermediate Case
- Six. Stargazing and Spying
- Seven. Teleaesthetics
- Eight. Diana Haunted and Hunted on TV
- Nine. Star Aura in Consumer Society (and Other Fatalities)
- Notes
- Index