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Global icons : apertures to the popular / Bishnupriya Ghosh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghosh, Bishnupriya.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture.
- Signs and symbols.
- Celebrities.
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.
- Contents:
- Introduction : icon matters
- Moving technologies
- Corporeal apertures
- Media frictions
- Public Image Ltd
- Those lives less ordinary
- Volatile icons
- In the name of the popular
- Becoming social.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613273321
- 9781283273329
- 1283273322
- 9780822394242
- 0822394243
- OCLC:
- 752862223
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