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The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson
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This book is ideal for readers interested in cultural studies, celebrity biography, and the intersection of race and popular culture. It will particularly appeal to those seeking a critical and in-depth understanding of Michael Jackson’s impact and enduring presence in society.
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Finalist: PROSE Awards 2023 – Media and Cultural Studies
Michael Jackson died in 2009, but he has never really left us and there are no signs he ever will.
A globally acclaimed child star in the 1970s, the world’s premier entertainer in the final decades of the 20th century, and a perplexingly odd character in the 21st century, Jackson defied every known category and became borderline incomprehensible. To remedy this, in The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson, Ellis Cashmore reflects on the restless, unorthodox, and mysterious life Jackson led in order to understand more about him as well as his cultural impact.
Exploring how Jackson emerged from the post-civil rights era when America was searching for someone who symbolised a new age as it struggled to unburden itself of racial inequality, Cashmore’s book is the first to examine Jackson’s career through the prisms of American racial politics and celebrity culture.
Uniquely structured, beginning in the present and journeying back to Jackson’s birth, The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson will excite and enliven debates on this controversial figure, one that very much continues to remain embedded within our culture.
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Critics praise Cashmore's approach as brilliantly written and well-researched, commending the biography-in-reverse format and insightful cultural analysis. Martin Chilton of The Independent highlights the nuanced portrait of Jackson as a bewilderingly complex character shaped by American society. Reviews from Choice and Buzz note the book’s innovative and subversive narrative, encouraging reconsideration of Jackson’s image and controversies through a fresh perspective.
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ISBN: 9781501363580
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 16 June 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 23 bw illus
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 232.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 720g
Pages: 376
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About the Author
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.
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