The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
Daniel Herwitz
October, 2008
Cloth, 176 pages, 5 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14540-4
$27.50
/ £19.00
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2009
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About the Author
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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