Republicanism and the American Gothic
Posted by admin on June 30, 2009 in News tagged withMarilyn Michaud
Marilyn Michaud
The saturation press and television coverage of the sad death of Michael Jackson highlights the (unfortunate?) ubiquity of ‘theory’ in considerations of cultural events today. One cannot lift a newspaper, or spend some quality time with one’s television, without being force-fed the latest diet of Princess Diana-esque accounts of His story and importance. In death, as in life, Jackson will be over-scrutinised reducing his very considerable contributions to pop culture to the grotesquely absurd. To a degree this is our fault. Nothing seems to fascinate us like a celeb
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