Ellis Cashmore: Elizabeth Taylor, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Elizabeth Taylor
- A Private Life for Public Consumption
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- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 02/2016
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781628920697
- Artikelnummer:
- 2442355
- Umfang:
- 432 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 457 g
- Maße:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 33 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 25.2.2016
- Hinweis
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The first volume to examine the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in this light, Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption paints Taylor as the seminal representation of "celebrity." A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, she intrigued a global audience with her marriages and extra-marital improprieties, as well as her extravagant jewelry, her never-ending illnesses, her dependency on alcohol, and her perplexing friendship with Michael Jackson. Despite her continued world-renown, however, most people would be hard-pressed to name even three of her films, though she made over seventy.
Ellis Cashmore traces our modern, hyperactive celebrity culture back to a single instant in Taylor's life: the publicizing of her scandalous affair with Richard Burton by photographer Marcelo Geppetti in 1962, which announced the arrival of a new generation of predatory photojournalists and, along with them, a strange conflation between the public and private lives of celebrities. Taylor's life and public reception, Cashmore reveals, epitomizes the modern phenomenon of "celebrity."