ABC; see American Broadcasting Corporation
actor(s); Allen, Woody; Bergman, Ingrid; Bernhardt, Sarah; Bogart, Humphrey; Burr, Raymond; Connery, Sean; Cooper, Gary; Curtis, Tony; Davis, Betty; Deneuve, Catherine, Depp, Johnny; Douglas, Michael; Eastwood, Clint; film star; Garbo, Greta; Garland, Judy; Gere, Richard; Gibson, Mel; Grace, Princess; Grant, Cary; Hepburn, Katharine; Irons, Jeremy; Jolie, Angelina; Lane, Nathan; Magnani, Anna; Mansfield, Jayne; Mirren, Helen; Moore, Demi; Nicholson, Jack; Pickford, Mary; Pitt, Brad; Robeson, Paul; Ryder, Winona; Sinatra, Frank; Stewart, Jimmy; Streep, Meryl; Temple, Shirley; Wayne, John; Welles, Orson; see also Kelly, Grace; Monroe, Marilyn
The Adams Family,
Adorno, Theodor
advertising
aesthete
aesthetics
aesthetic system
Allen, Woody
America (United States)
Americana
American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
American film studios
American Idol
Antoinette, Marie
Arafat, Yasir
Arbuckle, Fatty
art: advertising and; aesthetics of; aura in; celebrity/ logo and; contemporary; David (Michaelangelo); Paik, Nam Jun; painting; photography; Picasso, Pablo; religion and; Schnabel, Julian; The Success and Failure of Picasso (Berger); The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproducibility (Benjamin); see also Warhol, Andy
audience
aura; in art; Benjamin on; brand/logo and; as cage; characters and; definition of; dependency and; of Europe; in film; museum and; of Princess Diana; of product; reproducibility reducing; The Sopranos lack of; star icon and; theater and; TV and
Band of Outsiders (Godard)
Barnes, Julian
Barrie, Philip
Barthes, Roland
Bashir, Martin
BBC; see British Broadcasting Company
Beatles
Bedford, duke
Benjamin, Walter; on aura; Ferris on; on religious cult practice
Benneton
Berger, John
Bergman, Ingrid
Bernhardt, Sarah
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Birdcage (Nichols)
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Blair, Tony
Bloomingdales
Bogart, Humphrey
Bonanza,
Boorstein, Daniel
Bottomley, Virginia
brand
Branson, Richard
Braudy, Leo
British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
British Film Institute
Brown, Tina
Buckingham Palace
Burr, Raymond
Bush, George W.
Callas, Maria
Cambridge University
Camelot
Carlisle, Kitty
Cassini, Oleg
catastrophe
Catholic Church
Cavell, Stanley; automatisms of life of; on The Philadelphia Story; on photography
Cavett, Dick
celebrity; art/logo and; Boorstein on; as expanding market; fame; film star and; genius and; Gritten on; logo and; Marshall on; media and; of Picasso; as product; stalking of, through TV; star image and
Celebrity (Allen)
Celebrity Rehab,
characters
Charles (Prince)
Charles, Earl of Spencer
Chase, David
Churchill, Winston
cinema; see film
coexpressibility
Connery, Sean
Connor, Macaulay
consumer capitalism
consumer society
Cooper, Gary
counterfactual dependence
Cronkite, Walter
Cukor, George
cult: of aesthete; of media star; of Princess Diana; of royalty; star icon and; TV and; voyeurism and formation of
Curtis, Tony
Daily Mail
Das, Baba Ram
David (Michaelangelo)
Davis, Betty
Dayan, Daniel
Deneuve, Catherine
Depp, Johnny
devotion
Diana (Princess); as actor; aura of; Charles, Earl of Spencer on; cult of; eating disorders of; Fleming on; as Garbo in Grand Hotel; historical pedigree of; HIV/AIDS victims and; as icon figure; Irons and; Johnson on; Mandela on; media event of wedding of; Mother Teresa and; paparazzi and; physical communication of; Princess Grace and; as product; in Queen; Queen Elizabeth and; as star icon; in star system; talk show appearance of
Diana: The Portrait (Princess of Wales Foundation)
Dimbleby, Jonathan
disinformation campaign
Doane, Mary Anne
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Douglas, Michael
Druid
Durban, South Africa
Dyer, Richard
Eastwood, Clint
Edward VII
Eisenstein, Sergei
Elizabeth II (Queen)
England, England (Barnes)
entertainment
equalization
eulogy
Europe
fame
fans
fantasy
Farouk, king
Fayed, Dodi
Ferris, David
film: aura in; Band of Outsiders (Godard); The Birds (Hitchcock); British Film Institute; Cukor, George; Frenzy (Hitchcock); Goodbye Columbus (Roth); Grand Hotel (Goulding); His Girl Friday (Hawks); Hitchcock as philosopher of; Marx Brothers; Panofsky on; The Philadelphia Story (Cukor); physiognomy in; Queen (Frears); Rear Window (Hitchcock); star image and; A Star Is Born (Cukor); The Triumph of the Will; The Truman Show (Weir); TV and; Vertigo (Hitchcock); voyeurism and; Walton on; Weir, Peter; Wilder, Billy; Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Tashlin); see also art
film star
Fisher, Philip
Fleming, Tom
Fox News
Fox TV
Frears, Stephen
Freemont, Lisa
Frenzy (Hitchcock)
The führer
Gamson, Joshua
Garbo, Greta
Garfield, John
Garland, Judy
genius
Gere, Richard
gesture
Gibson, Mel
Gilligan’s Island,
glamour
Godard, Jean-Luc
Goldstein, Lawrence
Goodbye Columbus (Roth)
Grace, Princess, see also Kelly, Grace
Grand Hotel (Goulding)
Grant, Cary
Gritten, David
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles
Haven, C. K. Dexter
Hayes, John Michael
Hearst, William Randolph
Henreid, Paul
Henry VIII, king
Hepburn, Katharine
hero
Hewitt, James
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
Hitchcock, Alfred
HIV/AIDS victims
Hollywood
Hubbell telescope
Hughes, Robert
human symbols
idol
imagination
improvisation
information
Inside TV
Irons, Jeremy
It Had to be Murder (Woolrich)
Jackie Frieze (Warhol)
JFK; see Kennedy, John F.
John, Elton
Johnson, Richard
Jolie, Angelina
journalism
Kafka (Soderbergh)
Katz, Elihu
Keeley, Senator
Kelly, Grace
Kennedy, John F. (JFK)
Kensington Palace
Lacan, Jacques
Laemmle, Carl
Lama, Dalai
Lane, Nathan
Lauren, Ralph
Leach, Archibald
Liszt, Franz
“live” news
logo
Lubin, David
Mack, Ted
Magnani, Anna
Mandela, Nelson
Mansfield, Jayne
The Man Without Qualities (Musil)
Margaret, Princess
market quality
market value
Marlborough, duke
Marshall, P. David
Marx Brothers
Mata Hari
media; celebrity/star icon and; consumer society and; repetition and; state of; see also American Broadcasting Corporation; British Broadcasting Company; Fox News; Fox TV
media event(s): Dayan and Katz on; Princess Diana’s wedding as; TV taking advantage of
media figure
media presence
Mellencamp, Patricia
melodrama
Mercedes Benz
MGM musical
Michaelangelo
Mirren, Helen
mirror
Modleski, Tania
Monaco
Monroe, Marilyn; Braudy on; TV and; Wilder and
Moore, Demi
Moore, Michael
moral authority
Morton, Andrew
The Morton Downey Show
Moss, Kate
movies; see film
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mr. Ed,
multiply mirroring device
museum
Musil, Robert
narrative
New York Times Travel Section
Nicholson, Jack
A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers)
Onassis, Jackie
ontology of liveness
opera: Callas, Maria; Don Giovanni (Mozart); Parsifal (Wagner); Pavarotti, Luciano; Wagner, Richard
orientalism
Original Amateur Hour (Mack)
Paik, Nam Jun
painting
Panofsky, Erwin
Panorama (current affairs program)
paparazzi
parallelism
Paris, France
Parker-Bowles, Camilla
Parsifal (Wagner)
Pasteur, Louis
Pavarotti, Luciano
People magazine
People’s Princess
persona
Petticoat Junction
pharmaceutical companies
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
Philip (Duke)
philosopher
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
philosophy
photography
physiognomy
Piaf, Edith
Picasso, Pablo
Pickford, Mary
Pitt, Brad
pop culture
presidential debates
Presley, Elvis
Princess of Wales; see also Diana, Princess
product
public
public appetite
public spectacle
Pulitzer, Joseph
purposiveness
Queen (Frears)
Rainier, prince
rat pack
reality TV
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
religion
religious cult practice
repetition: audience compulsion with; fame and; media and; star image and; in TV; Warhol recognizing
reproducibility
Roach, Jay
Robeson, Paul
Romanticism
Ross, Andrew
Roth, Philip
Royal Family; see also Charles (Prince); Charles, Earl of Spencer; Diana (Princess); Edward VII; Elizabeth II (Queen); Philip (Duke)
Russell, Rosalind
Ryder, Winona
saint
St. James Park
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Sawyer, Diane
scandal
Schnabel, Julian
Second World War
Shakespeare, William
Sinatra, Frank
Sinatra, Nancy
Soderbergh, Stephen
Sontag, Susan
The Sopranos,
Soprano, Tony
South Africa
Spigel, Lynn
Springer, Jerry
Spy Magazine
The Spy Who Shagged Me (Roach)
stalkarazzi
star icon; aesthetic system of; aura and; Bernhardt as; catastrophe and; cult and; media and; melodrama and; Presley as; Robeson as; transcendental aspect of; Wayne as; women as; see also Antoinette, Marie; aura; celebrity; cult; Diana, Princess; film star; Grace, Princess; Kelly, Grace; Monroe, Marilyn; Onassis, Jackie
star image; celebrity and; film/marketing and; Marshall on; repetition and; Stolley on; unapproachability of; see also aura
A Star Is Born (Cukor)
star quality
star system; Americana rooted in; Gamson on; Marshall on; origins of; The Philadelphia Story and; Princess Diana in; TV and; see also consumer capitalism; market quality; product; repetition; reproducibility
star worship
Stein, Gertrude
Stewart, Donald Ogden
Stewart, Jimmy
Stolley, Richard
Stonehenge
Streep, Meryl
The Success and Failure of Picasso (Berger)
Survivor,
Susskind, David
talk radio
talk show hosts; Cavett, Dick; The Morton Downey Show; Springer, Jerry; Susskind, David; Winfrey, Oprah
Tashlin, Frank
tele-ethics
television (TV); American Broadcasting Corporation; American Idol; aura and; Bonanza; Carlisle, Kitty; catastrophe; celebrities stalked by; Cronkite, Walter; cult and; fantasy and; film and; Gilligan’s Island; Goldstein on; improvisation in; Inside TV; Kelly and; lack of purposiveness in; Marshall on; media events taken advantage of by; Monroe and; The Morton Downey Show; Mr. Ed; Onassis and; ontology of liveness in; Original Amateur Hour (Mack); Panorama (current affairs program); parallelism of; pharmaceutical companies sponsoring; reality TV; repetition in, Sawyer, Diane; star system and; Survivor; talk show hosts; The Three Stooges; TV continuity; The Twilight Zone; Walters, Barbara; the Western; women and; see also The Adams Family; The Beverly Hillbillies; The Birdcage (Nichols); media; media event(s); Petticoat Junction; The Sopranos; The Truman Show (Weir)
Temple, Shirley
Teresa, Mother
Thatcher, Margaret
Thatcher, Mark
theater
Thoreau, Henry David
The Three Stooges
time
“Transparent Pictures” (Walton)
The Triumph of the Will
The Truman Show (Weir)
Trump, Donald
TV; see television
TV continuity
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
The Twilight Zone
unapproachability
Van Gogh, Vincent
Vanity Fair,
Versace, Donatella
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
von Stroheim, Eric
voyeurism; cult formation and; film and; star aura as
vulnerabilities
Wagner, Richard
Walters, Barbara
Walton, Kendall
Warhol, Andy; early work of; Fisher on; Jackie Frieze; pop culture and; repetition recognized by
Wayne, John
Weber, Max
Weir, Peter
Welles, Orson
the Western
Westminster Abbey
Wharton, Edith
White Album (Beatles)
Wilder, Billy
Williams, Raymond
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Tashlin)
Winfrey, Oprah
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann
women; manipulation of; Oprah and; role of; TV and
Woolrich, Cornell
The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproducibility (Benjamin)
The World Viewed (Cavell)