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Global icons : apertures to the popular / Bishnupriya Ghosh.

By: Publication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.Description: xiii, 383 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822350163 (pbk.) :
  • 0822350165 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM621 .G47 2011
Contents:
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection HM 621 .G47 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5094783

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-375) and index.

Introduction : icon matters -- I: Incorporations: theorizing the icon as technology -- Moving technologies -- Corporeal apertures -- II: Biographs: the material culture of global icons -- Media frictions -- Public Image Ltd. -- Those lives less ordinary -- Volatile icons -- III: Locations: the politics of the icon -- In the name of the popular -- Becoming social.

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