Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

383 kr

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Beskrivning

Finalist: PROSE Awards 2023 – Media and Cultural StudiesMichael Jackson died in 2009, but he has never really left us and there are no signs he ever will. A globally acclaimed child star in the 1970s, the world’s premier entertainer in the final decades of the 20th century, a perplexingly odd character in the 21st century, Jackson defied every known category and became borderline incomprehensible. To remedy this, in The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson, Ellis Cashmore reflects the restless, unorthodox and mysterious life Jackson led in order to understand more about him as well as his cultural impact.Exploring how Jackson emerged from the post-civil rights era when America was searching for someone who symbolized a new age as it struggled to unburden itself of racial inequality, Cashmore’s book is the first to examine Jackson’s career through the prisms of American racial politics and celebrity culture. Uniquely structured, beginning in the present and journeying back to Jackson’s birth, The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson will excite and enliven debates on this controversial figure, one that very much continues to remain embedded within our culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-16
Mått:154 x 230 x 38 mm
Vikt:636 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501363580
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for The PROSE Award 2023 (UK)

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Musiker, sångare och grupper inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Ellis Cashmore is the author of Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption (2017) and Beyond Black: Celebrity and Race in Obama’s America (2012), both published by Bloomsbury. A third edition of his Celebrity Culture is forthcoming. He has held positions in sociology at the universities of Hong Kong and Tampa, USA and is currently an honorary professor at Aston University, UK.

Recensioner i media

Cashmore’s book attempts to be more than another rehash of scandals. He discusses Jackson, who he calls ‘a bewilderingly complex character’, in the light of his role as a ‘shining symbol of a post-civil rights land of opportunity’, and looks at how Jackson’s character was affected by American culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Destruction and Creation: Timeline 11. Pact with the Devil 2. Ticket to Ride3. Nothing Strange about Your Daddy4. Prisoner of All Those Around Him 5. Yesterday’s News6. Through the Eyes of a Child 7. With Walt Disney or Michelangelo8. A Nightmare 9. In Aladdin’s Cave 10. Whatever Reality They Want11. Shifting the Needle12. From His Sexuality to His Face13. True or Not, It Didn’t Matter14. Wearing Different Masks15. Prophets of Black Conservatism16. Nothing Was the Same After17. Phantasmagorical Bubble Machine18. Without the Grit of Reality19. The Wand 20. Old Soul in a Young Body21. In This Good Land of Ours22. Close to the Threshold of HellDestruction and Creation: Key PlayersPlaylistBibliographyIndex

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