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"A highly original work that is extremely important to the study of both culture and politics. Demonstrating how the cultural icon of Marilyn Monroe provides the "body politic" in American mass-mediated society, Baty not only offers a provocative reading of the iconographic, biographic, cartographic and hagiographic modes in which "Marilyn" has been written by others, but also gives us a novel theorization of how popular culture translates, transforms, and embodies the political sphere."—Vivian Sobchack, author of The Address of the Eye "Reborn on coffee cups, T-shirts, and film footage, in conspiracy theory, biography, and necrophilia, the remembered fragments of Marilyn Monroe—so Paige...
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This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films s...
From stories of giant sea creatures and modern-day vampires to campaign rumors and the long-lost diaries of Adolf Hitler, award-winning journalist Bob Tamarkin traces countless instances of lies, hoaxes, and hearsay across time and place, discusses their effects, and debunking them when possible. Illustrations.
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Based on the testimony of four psychics who claim to have made contact with Marilyn Monroe, this account of the final days of the pop icon reveals the roles of the Kennedys, the Mafia, and the FBI. Reprint. NYT.
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