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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2016
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- Titel
- The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
- Autor
- Herwitz, Daniel
- Verlag
- Columbia University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
- Zustand
- Very Good
- Einband
- paperback
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0231145411
- ISBN-13
- 9780231145411
Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kellythe 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 toldwhile 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Daniel Herwitz is the Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities and director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively on the aesthetics of film, music, and visual art, and his monograph on the Indian painter M. F. Husain won a National Book Award in that country. Herwitz is the author ofRace and Reconciliation, a book based on his experiences in South Africa, and short stories that have appeared in theMichigan Quarterly Review. A philosopher by training, Herwitz is also the coeditor, with Lydia Goehr, ofThe Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera.
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