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Lecture - Dr Max Jones (University of Manchester)
'From Hero to Celebrity? Authority and Prestige since 1945'
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Lecture Date: | 2009-06-24 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-05-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
168755 |
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Daniel Boorstin’s The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, first published in 1961, provides a starting point for this lecture. Boorstin’s perceptive study contrasted heroes with celebrities, “marketable human models” manufactured by the media. Boorstin suggested that it was only in wartime that modern society could make new heroes. This lecture will challenge Boorstin’s rigid distinction between heroes and celebrities to explore the proliferation of non-military heroes since 1945
Lecture starts at 5pm and will be follwed by a drinks reception
Department of History
King's College London
All welcome
For further details visit
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/history/events/conferences.html
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