Dead celebrities, living icons : tragedy and fame in the age of the multimedia superstar / John David Ebert.
Material type: TextPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2010Description: xxiv, 230 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0313377642
- 9780313377648
- Celebrities -- United States -- Death
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Tragedy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Tragedy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Fame -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Fame -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Tabloid newspapers -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945
- 973.9 22
- E169.12 .E24 2010
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 973.9 EBE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A453984B |
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.
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