Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar
by Ebert, John DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-06-02
Publisher(s): Greenwood Pub Group
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Summary
We know their likes and dislikes, admire their talents, envy them for daring to be what we canÕt or what we wonÕt. When they are snatched from us, we feel a personal loss and an unwillingness to let go. And so we transform these mere human beings into icons whose stars often shine in death even more brilliantly than in life.Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar explores this phenomenon through a series of essays on 14 men and women who are, arguably, the most famous people of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Far more than just a collection of biographies, Dead Celebrities, Living Icons documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Saints in the Age of Electronic Stained Glass | p. xi |
| Birth and Rise (The 1930s) | p. 1 |
| Howard Hughes, the World's First Serial Crash Artist | p. 3 |
| Walt Disney Builds the Cosmos Electric | p. 19 |
| Classics (The 1950s) | p. 35 |
| The Weird and Fantastic Tale of the Pixellation and Disintegration of Elvis Presley | p. 37 |
| James Dean's Death by Car Crash: An Analysis | p. 49 |
| The Strange Tale of the Wondrous Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe | p. 57 |
| Tribes (The 1960s) | p. 71 |
| The Assassination of | p. 73 |
| Andy Warhol's Cult of the Dead Celebrity | p. 83 |
| The Beatles, Their Muse, a Car Crash, Five Bullets, and Some Flowers from the Dead | p. 95 |
| Jim Morrison Awoke One Morning Transformed | p. 113 |
| Sunset (The 1980s) | p. 127 |
| The Celluloid Man Made Flesh | p. 131 |
| The Passion of Gianni Versace | p. 145 |
| Princess Diana's Media Metamorphoses | p. 161 |
| The Myth Today (The 2000s) | p. 173 |
| The Multiple Selves of Heath Ledger | p. 175 |
| Genesis, Evolution, Disintegration | p. 189 |
| Afterword; On the Otherworldly Nature of Electronic Culture | p. 207 |
| Notes | p. 211 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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