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  1. The star as icon
    celebrity in the age of mass consumption
    Author: Herwitz, Daniel Alan
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York

    Publisher's description -- 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

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Bibliothek
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    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    Publisher's description -- 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 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 play in our lives. Herwitz portrays the star icon as caught between transcendence and trauma. An effervescent being living on a distant, exalted planet, the star icon is also a melodramatic heroine desperate to escape her life and the ever-watchful eye of the media. The public buoys her up and then eagerly watches her fall, her collapse providing a satisfying conclusion to a story sensationally told -- while leaving the public yearning for a rebirth. Herwitz locates this double life in the opposing tensions of film, television, religion, and consumer culture, offering fresh perspectives on these subjects while ingeniously mapping society's creation (and destruction) of these special aesthetic stars. Herwitz has a soft spot for popular culture yet remains deeply skeptical of public illusion. He worries that the media distances us from even minimal insight into those who are transfigured into star icons. It also blinds us to the shaping of our political present.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231145404
    RVK Categories: AP 16850 ; MS 1280
    Subjects: Célébrités; Ästhetik; Fame; Celebrities; Celebrities in mass media; Aesthetics; Popular culture; Berühmte Persönlichkeit; Massenkultur
    Scope: XI, 157 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. The star as icon
    celebrity in the age of mass consumption
    Author: Herwitz, Daniel Alan
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York

    Publisher's description -- 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

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

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    Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Publisher's description -- 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 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 play in our lives. Herwitz portrays the star icon as caught between transcendence and trauma. An effervescent being living on a distant, exalted planet, the star icon is also a melodramatic heroine desperate to escape her life and the ever-watchful eye of the media. The public buoys her up and then eagerly watches her fall, her collapse providing a satisfying conclusion to a story sensationally told -- while leaving the public yearning for a rebirth. Herwitz locates this double life in the opposing tensions of film, television, religion, and consumer culture, offering fresh perspectives on these subjects while ingeniously mapping society's creation (and destruction) of these special aesthetic stars. Herwitz has a soft spot for popular culture yet remains deeply skeptical of public illusion. He worries that the media distances us from even minimal insight into those who are transfigured into star icons. It also blinds us to the shaping of our political present.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780231145404
    RVK Categories: AP 16850 ; MS 1280
    Subjects: Célébrités; Ästhetik; Fame; Celebrities; Celebrities in mass media; Aesthetics; Popular culture; Berühmte Persönlichkeit; Massenkultur
    Scope: XI, 157 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index