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Zusatztext Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption (Bloomsbury) by Ellis Cashmore is a lively study not only of the iconic movie star's sometimes stormy life but of how she changed our ideas about celebrity as well as entering the business and political arenas. Informationen zum Autor 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. Vorwort Uses the English-born Hollywood star as a lens through which to examine the social changes that have yielded what we now call celebrity culture. Zusammenfassung 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.” Inhaltsverzeichnis Timeline: Life and Times1. The Most Public of Private Lives2. Animal Delight3. Like A Million Dollars4. With Human Failings5. Inseparable from the Gossip6. Dismantling the Fantasy7. Believing and Wanting to Believe8. Beyond Condemnation9. The Devil's Work10. Every Fiber of My Soul11. Facing Oblivion12. Voyeurs and Performers13. Rules of Engagement14. No Life Without15. Everything is for Sale16. Other People's Lives17. On Dangerous Ground18. Only the Custodian19. Nobody Can Hurt HerPlayersBibliography Index...
