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The star as icon : celebrity in the age of mass consumption / Daniel Herwitz.

By: Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.Description: xi, 157 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780231145404 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231145403 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231518581 (ebook)
  • 0231518587 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1470.5 .H47 2008
Contents:
The candle in the wind -- There is only one star icon (except in a Warhol picture) -- Therefore not all idols are American -- A star is born -- The film aura : an intermediate case -- Stargazing and spying -- Teleaesthetics -- Diana haunted and hunted on TV -- Star aura in consumer society (and other fatalities).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-149) and index.

The candle in the wind -- There is only one star icon (except in a Warhol picture) -- Therefore not all idols are American -- A star is born -- The film aura : an intermediate case -- Stargazing and spying -- Teleaesthetics -- Diana haunted and hunted on TV -- Star aura in consumer society (and other fatalities).

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