Circling Marilyn: Text, Body, Performance - Couverture souple

Juncker, Clara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8776744809 ISBN 13 : 9788776744809

Editeur : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2010

Synopsis

Circling Marilyn approaches the famous star in a manner that recognizes the impossibility of ever locating the "real" Marilyn Monroe. The book gets close to the actress by discussing the chameleonic performances of Marilyn as woman, star, and text. Like El, Marilyn lives, because she has become a discourse artiating major issues in the tures she inhabits, whether in the 1950s or in the 21st century. In circling "Marilyn country," this book discusses Marilyn Monroe as text, since those who knew and did not know her - husbands, lovers, fans, writers, directors, co-stars, critics - have written about Marilyn differently, and endlessly. Circling Marilyn also scrutinizes Marilyn as 'body,' but it locates not just one body, but many, including a disciplined and a communicative body. Other chapters consider the performing Marilyn and Marilyn performed. Marilyn takes on various roles as herself, as a cowgirl on the last frontier, and as a 'white and black' woman - destabilizing conventional categories of race and becoming whiter and whiter to the point where she combines whiteness and death. Others play Marilyn by snatching her famous body for their own purposes, at parades or in cyberspace. Circling Marilyn is for those whose apite for Marilyn Monroe keeps her alive, if eternally elusive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Clara Juncker is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include American Literature, Women's Studies, and Transnational Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Southern Denmark
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8776744809
• ISBN 13: 9788776744809
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne