American Monroe: The Making of a Body Politic by S. Paige Baty (Paperback, 1995)

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American Monroe : The Making of a Body Politic, Paperback by Baty, S. Paige, ISBN 0520088069, ISBN-13 9780520088061, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Exlores Marilyn Monroe's place in American popular culture and examines the ways Americans remember Marilyn Monroe--from playing cards, books, and fan clubs, to female impersonators, political conspiracies, and high art.

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Marilyn Monroe is alive and well in the American imagination. She is the stuff of memory, living as icon, mysterious suicide, transgressive goddess?a character that tells the story of America itself. American Monroe explores the ways we remember Marilyn?from playing cards, books, and fan clubs, to female impersonators, political conspiracies, and high art, her ubiquitous presence informs our cultural common ground. Finding in Marilyn a representative character of our time, Baty explores some of the cultural lives she has been made to lead. We follow the mediatrix from the biographies by Mailer and Steinem, to the shadowy Kennedy connection, to the coroner Noguchi's obsession with the body of the dead star. Representations of Marilyn, Baty shows, displace neat categories of high and low culture, of public and private, male and female. She becomes a surface that mirrors everything it touches, a site upon which to explore the character of the postmodern condition. American Monroe is an innovative, scintillating look at the making and remaking of popular icons. It explores the vocabulary of memory as it moves the reader past vistas of American political culture. It seeks to understand Marilyn's enduring power and how, through our many-layered rememberings of her, we come to understand ourselves and our shared history.

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PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-139780520088061
eBay Product ID (ePID)89380277

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Book TitleAmerican Monroe: the Making of a Body Politic
AuthorS. Paige Baty
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTelevision
Publication Year1995
Number of Pages197 Pages

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Item Weight363g

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Title_AuthorS. Paige Baty
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

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