Michael Jackson : grasping the spectacle /
Smit, Christopher R.
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Freaks (from On Michael Jackson) / Margo Jefferson -- Michael Jackson and the myth of race and gender / Julian Vigo -- Sentenced to neverland : Michael Jackson, Peter Pan, and queer futurity / Amy C. Billone -- Michael Jackson and the quandary of black identity / Sherrow O. Pinder -- The "split" biography : Man in the mirror : The Michael Jackson story / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- From pop icon to postmodern kitsch : images of Michael Jackson in contemporary art / Brett M. Van Hoesen -- Putting the music back into Michael Jackson studies / Christopher Wiley -- "We are here to change the world" : Captain EO and the future of Utopia / Carl Miller -- Tomorrow today : Michael Jackson as science fiction character, author, and text / Ruchi Mital -- Dancing with the elephant man's bones / Raphael Raphael -- Cultural anxiety surrounding a plastic prodigy : a performance analysis of Michael Jackson as an embodiment of post-identity politics / Julie-Ann Scott -- The unbearable lightness of being Michael : the religious witness of Michael Jackson / David Dark -- "We are going to see the king" : christianity and celebrity at Michael Jackson's memorial / Diana York Blaine -- Remember to always think twice : the reconciliation of Michael Jackson / Zack Stiegler.
Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009
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