{"product_id":"elizabeth-taylor-a-private-life-for-public-consumption-9781628920697","title":"Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ellis Cashmore\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Entertainment \u0026amp; Performing Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume to examine the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in this light, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083478098071,"sku":"9781628920697","price":3149.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781628920697.webp?v=1767142634","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/elizabeth-taylor-a-private-life-for-public-consumption-9781628920697","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}