Elizabeth Taylor : a private life for public consumption
Cashmore, Ernest2016
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A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, Elizabeth Taylor intrigued a global audience with her marriages and extra-marital improprieties, as well as her extravagant jewellery, 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 publicising 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.
Main title:
Elizabeth Taylor : a private life for public consumption / Ellis Cashmore.
Author:
Cashmore, Ernest, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
432 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781628920697 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2216473
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