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Elizabeth Taylor - A Private Life for Public Consumption (Hardcover)
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Elizabeth Taylor - A Private Life for Public Consumption (Hardcover)
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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."
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