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The author examines the various kinds of stars, questioning the needs each type fulfills in our lives and relating these needs to particular entertainment media.
| ISBN | 0816627258 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780816627257
(What's this?) | | Pages | 304 | | Publisher | University of Minnesota Press | | Volumes | 000 | | Imprint | University of Minnesota Press | | Weight (grammes) | 420 | | Format | Hardback | | Published in | Minneapolis | | Publication date | 15 Feb 1997 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Non-book description | xv, 290 p. : | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | E169.04.M3 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 306.4 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | 1 | | Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individual | | 3 | | 2 | | Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience | | 27 | | 3 | | Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power | | 51 | | 4 | | The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity | | 79 | | 5 | | Television's Construction of the Celebrity | | 119 | | 6 | | The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity | | 150 | | 7 | | The System of Celebrity | | 185 | | 8 | | The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture | | 203 | | | | Conclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity | | 241 | | | | Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture | | 248 | | | | Notes | | 251 | | | | Index | | 283 |
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