Beschreibung:
Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the departments of Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel.
Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction: Icon Matters Part 1. Incorporations: Theorizing the Icon 1. Moving Technologies; 2. Corporeal Apertures Part 2. Biographs: The Material Culture of Global Icons 3. Media Frictions; 4. Public Image Ltd.; 5. Those Lives Less Ordinary; 6. Volatile Icons Part 3. Locations: The Politics of the Icon 7. In the Name of the Popular; 8. Becoming Social Notes; References; Index