| Ray Broadus Browne, Marshall William Fishwick - 1983 - 332 Seiten
...luminaries have done nothing except exhibit luminosity. Boorstin inveighs against such transformations: The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the...himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero is a big man; the celebrity is a big name.15 What is implied here, of course, is modern decadence,... | |
| Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - 1983 - 370 Seiten
...compelled you to become a sympathetic reader. 4. Analyze the sentence structure in the following passage: "The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the...hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name." What rhetorical techniques is Boorstin using in this passage? Why are they effective? 5. Diana Trilling... | |
| Richard J. Jensen, John C. Hammerback - 1987 - 330 Seiten
...celebrity, if only he can get into the news and stay there."66 Celebrities differ from the heroes: "The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the...trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is a big name.... The man of truly heroic status was once supposed to be marked by scorn for publicity.... | |
| Susan J. Drucker, Robert S. Cathcart - 1994 - 360 Seiten
...Boorstin (1961) summarizes the primary differences between the hero and the celebrity accordingly: "The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the...The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name" (p. 61). What is significant is that Boorstin is not alone in his conviction that to be a hero in American... | |
| Lawrence A. Wenner - 1998 - 360 Seiten
...the hero with the celebrity. According to Boorstin (1978), The hero was distinguished by his [sic] achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark....The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name. (p. 61) Boorstin argues that individuals who perform legitimately heroic deeds are ultimately transformed... | |
| James B. Twitchell - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...to Pseudo Events in America, historian Daniel Boorstin defined modern fame in terms that hit home. "The hero was distinguished by his achievement, the celebrity by his image. The celebrity is a person well known for his well-knownness. We risk being the first people in history... | |
| David F. Wells - 1999 - 244 Seiten
...manufactured with little or no accomplishment behind it. In Daniel Boorstin's rather caustic comparison: "The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the...hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name." 4:i It is our commereial culture that produces the celebrity, whereas it was the moral culture that,... | |
| Brenda R. Silver - 1999 - 384 Seiten
...Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity (New York: Routledge, 1994). 38. In Boorstin's definition, "the hero was distinguished by his achievement; the...The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name" (The Image, 61). 39. Michael M. Thomas, "Once We Had Real Heroes; Now There Are Only Stars . . . ,"... | |
| Michael Shermer - 2001 - 368 Seiten
...'supercolossal' on the label, the contents are very ordinary."19 He continues with this lucid distinction: "The hero was distinguished by his achievement, the...media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name."20 Recognition of greatness accrues only to true heroes who do not need to create an image for... | |
| P. Eric Louw - 2005 - 324 Seiten
...success is increasingly a function of impression management geared towards crafting a working mask: The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the...secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.... In the democracy of pseudo-events, anyone can become a celebrity, if only he can get into the news... | |
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