The star as icon
Subtitle: celebrity in the age of mass consumption
By: Daniel Herwitz.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780231145404
Subjects: Fame; Celebrities; Celebrities in mass media; Aesthetics; Popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The candle in the wind; title: There is only one star icon (except in a Warhol picture); title: Therefore not all idols are American; title: A star is born; title: The film aura : an intermediate case; title: Stargazing and spying; title: Tele-aesthetics; title: Diana haunted and hunted on TV; title: Star aura in consumer society (and other fatalities).