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

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Main Author: Herwitz, Daniel Alan, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
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260 |a New York :  |b Columbia University Press,  |c ©2008. 
300 |a xi, 157 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 22 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-149) and index. 
520 1 |a "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 transfigured as star icons. It also blinds us to the shaping of our political present."--BOOK JACKET. 
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650 0 |a Celebrities in mass media.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99012458. 
650 0 |a Aesthetics.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001441. 
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