Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession

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Part 1 Pre-dead Elvis: jungle music - the all-time all-star 1950s rock 'n' roll movie
king death. Part 2 The absence of Elvis: Elvis - the ashtray
duets
tale from the crypt
the myth behind the truth behind the legend
the road away from Graceland
a view of Graceland - the absence of Elvis. Part 3 The return of Elvis Presley: the last breakfast
never bet the devil your head gallery
the king of rhythm and blues
good book on Elvis published - shocking truth revealed
ten years after - death on the installment plan. Part 4 Still dead: the man who wasn't Elvis
emanations, sightings, disappearances, or a seance of 18 mediums
a corpse in your mouth - adventures of a metaphor, or modern cannibalism
still dead - Elvis Presley without music.

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In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows in this remarkable book, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness—and the American subconscious.

As he listens in on the public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks the path of Presley's resurrection. He grafts together scattered fragments of the eclectic dialogue—snatches of movies and music, books and newspapers, photographs, posters, cartoons—and amazes us with not only what America has been saying as it raises its late king, but also what this strange obsession with a dead Elvis can tell us about America itself.

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Marcus's rapt attention to what Elvis continues to mean is both transmitted and justified in a splendid piece of critical art ... a marvelous and profane book about a cultural symbol of cultural symbol-making. -- David Foster Wallace

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