{"product_id":"9781628920697","title":"Elizabeth Taylor : A Private Life for Public Consumption","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first volume to examine the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in this light, Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption paints Taylor as the seminal representation of \"celebrity.\" A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, she intrigued a global audience with her marriages and extra-marital improprieties, as well as her extravagant jewelry, her never-ending illnesses, her dependency on alcohol, and her perplexing friendship with Michael Jackson. Despite her continued world-renown, however, most people would be hard-pressed to name even three of her films, though she made over seventy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEllis Cashmore traces our modern, hyperactive celebrity culture back to a single instant in Taylor's life: the publicizing of her scandalous affair with Richard Burton by photographer Marcelo Geppetti in 1962, which announced the arrival of a new generation of predatory photojournalists and, along with them, a strange conflation between the public and private lives of celebrities. Taylor's life and public reception, Cashmore reveals, epitomizes the modern phenomenon of \"celebrity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49769606971640,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":74.32,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781628920697-1.jpg?v=1783726999","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781628920697","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}