A Massive Swelling : Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque and Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
A Massive Swelling : Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque and Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
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Author(s): Wilson, Cintra
ISBN No.: 9780141001951
Pages: 256
Year: 200107
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 17.94
Status: Out Of Print

Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascinating with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and subversive essays. Often radical and always a scream, Wilson takes on every sacred cow, toppling icons as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Ike Turner, Michael Jackson, and-for obvious reasons-Bruce Willis. She exposes events like the Oscars and even athletic jamborees as having grown a "tumescent aura of Otherness". Wilson's scathing and irresistible dissections of Las Vegas as "the Death Star of Entertainment", and Los Angeles as "a giant peach of a dream crawling with centipedes" pulse with her enlightened rejection of all things false and vain and egotistical. Written with her trademark zeal and intelligence, A Massive Swelling is the antidote for the fame virus that infects us all.


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