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The star as icon: celebrity in the age of mass consumption

By Daniel , Herwitz

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780231518581, 9780231145404
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1794347 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

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 of Race and Reconciliation, a book based on his experiences in South Africa, and short stories that have appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review. A philosopher by training, Herwitz is also the coeditor, with Lydia Goehr, of The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera.

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