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100 1 Ebert, John David.
245 10 Dead celebrities, living icons :|btragedy and fame in the
age of the multimedia superstar /|cJohn David Ebert.
260 Santa Barbara, Calif. ;|aOxford :|bPraeger,|cc2010.
300 xxiv, 230 p. ;|c25 cm.
505 0 Introduction: Saints in the age of electronic stained
glass -- pt. 1. Birth and rise (the 1930s) -- Howard
Hughes, the world's first serial crash artist -- Walt
Disney builds the cosmos electric -- pt. 2. Classics (the
1950s) -- The weird and fantastic tale of the pixellation
and disintegration of Elvis Presley -- James Dean's death
by car crash : an analysis -- The strange tale of the
wondrous life and curious death of Marilyn Monroe -- pt.
3. Tribes (the 1960s) -- The assassination of John F.
Kennedy considered as a case of media warfare -- Andy
Warhol's cult of the dead celebrity -- The Beatles, their
muse, a car crash, five bullets, and some flowers from the
dead -- Jim Morrison awoke one morning to find himself
transformed -- pt. 4. Sunset (the 1980s) -- Ronald Reagan
: the celluloid man made flesh -- The passion of Gianni
Versace -- Princess Diana's media metamorphoses -- pt. 5.
The myth today (2000s) -- The multiple selves of Heath
Ledger -- Michael Jackson's macrosphere : genesis,
evolution, disintegration -- Afterword: On the
otherworldly nature of electronic culture.
650 0 Celebrities|zUnited States|xDeath.
650 0 Popular culture|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.
650 0 Popular culture|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st century.
650 0 Tragedy|xSocial aspects|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th
century.
650 0 Tragedy|xSocial aspects|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st
century.
650 0 Fame|xSocial aspects|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th
century.
650 0 Fame|xSocial aspects|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st
century.
650 0 Tabloid newspapers|xSocial aspects|zUnited States
|xHistory.
651 0 United States|xCivilization|y1945-
651 0 United States|xCivilization|y1918-1945.
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