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Elizabeth Taylor

By Ellis Cashmore

Elizabeth Taylor

By Ellis Cashmore

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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.¿?
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
2016-02-25
Publication Date:
2016-02-25
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
162892070X
ISBN13:
9781628920703
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
773 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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