A massive swelling
Subtitle: celebrity re-examined as a grotesque, crippling disease, and other cultural revolutions
By: Cintra Wilson
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780670891627
Subjects: Social aspects; Performing arts; Fame
Description: "In A Massive Swelling, columnist and culture critic Cintra Wilson is a ruthlessly funny pop culture barometer. Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascination with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and subversive essays on fame.".

"Wilson takes on every sacred cow, toppling icons as diverse as Barbra Streisand and the annoying diva machine, Ike Turner and the squalid decline of rock stars like him, Michael Jackson and his freakish state, and Bruce Willis for obvious reasons."--BOOK JACKET.