TY - BOOK AU - Ghosh,Bishnupriya TI - Global icons: apertures to the popular SN - 9780822350163 (pbk.) : AV - HM621 .G47 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Popular culture KW - Signs and symbols KW - Celebrities KW - Mass media N1 - 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. ER -