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Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle

  • Author: Smit, Christopher R.

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Contents

  • Contents: Introduction: chasing the spectacle of Michael Jackson, Christopher R. Smit
  • Part I Mythology and Identity: 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. Part II Music and Image: 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. Part III Body and Death: 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 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index.