Dead celebrities, living icons : tragedy and fame in the age of the multimedia superstar /
Ebert, John David,
Dead celebrities, living icons : tragedy and fame in the age of the multimedia superstar / John David Ebert. - xxiv, 230 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Saints in the age of electronic stained glass -- pt. 1. Birth and rise (the 1930s) -- Howard Hughes, the world's first serial crash artist -- Walt Disney builds the cosmos electric -- pt. 2. Classics (the 1950s) -- The weird and fantastic tale of the pixellation and disintegration of Elvis Presley -- James Dean's death by car crash : an analysis -- The strange tale of the wondrous life and curious death of Marilyn Monroe -- pt. 3. Tribes (the 1960s) -- The assassination of John F. Kennedy considered as a case of media warfare -- Andy Warhol's cult of the dead celebrity -- The Beatles, their muse, a car crash, five bullets, and some flowers from the dead -- Jim Morrison awoke one morning to find himself transformed -- pt. 4. Sunset (the 1980s) -- Ronald Reagan : the celluloid man made flesh -- The passion of Gianni Versace -- Princess Diana's media metamorphoses -- pt. 5. The myth today (2000s) -- The multiple selves of Heath Ledger -- Michael Jackson's macrosphere : genesis, evolution, disintegration -- Afterword: On the otherworldly nature of electronic culture.
0313377642 9780313377648
2010003460
Celebrities--Death.--United States
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century
Popular culture--History--United States--21st century.
Tragedy--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Tragedy--Social aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Fame--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Fame--Social aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Tabloid newspapers--Social aspects--History.--United States
United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--Civilization--1918-1945
E169.12 / .E24 2010
973.9
Dead celebrities, living icons : tragedy and fame in the age of the multimedia superstar / John David Ebert. - xxiv, 230 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Saints in the age of electronic stained glass -- pt. 1. Birth and rise (the 1930s) -- Howard Hughes, the world's first serial crash artist -- Walt Disney builds the cosmos electric -- pt. 2. Classics (the 1950s) -- The weird and fantastic tale of the pixellation and disintegration of Elvis Presley -- James Dean's death by car crash : an analysis -- The strange tale of the wondrous life and curious death of Marilyn Monroe -- pt. 3. Tribes (the 1960s) -- The assassination of John F. Kennedy considered as a case of media warfare -- Andy Warhol's cult of the dead celebrity -- The Beatles, their muse, a car crash, five bullets, and some flowers from the dead -- Jim Morrison awoke one morning to find himself transformed -- pt. 4. Sunset (the 1980s) -- Ronald Reagan : the celluloid man made flesh -- The passion of Gianni Versace -- Princess Diana's media metamorphoses -- pt. 5. The myth today (2000s) -- The multiple selves of Heath Ledger -- Michael Jackson's macrosphere : genesis, evolution, disintegration -- Afterword: On the otherworldly nature of electronic culture.
0313377642 9780313377648
2010003460
Celebrities--Death.--United States
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century
Popular culture--History--United States--21st century.
Tragedy--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Tragedy--Social aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Fame--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Fame--Social aspects--History--United States--21st century.
Tabloid newspapers--Social aspects--History.--United States
United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--Civilization--1918-1945
E169.12 / .E24 2010
973.9