The King and Queen of Pop: Michael Jackson and Madonna

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Molly Sandling ◽  
Kimberley L. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Michael Jackson

Consuming Passions, Wasted Efforts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Hamera
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Child Molestation ◽  
Subprime Mortgage ◽  
Mortgage Crisis ◽  
Subprime Mortgage Crisis ◽  
Michael Jackson

This chapter examines Michael Jackson’s fiscal travails from 2002 to the release of This Is It in 2010, reading coverage of his consumption, debt, and attempts at recovery as racialized public melodrama. It begins with a scene of Jackson shopping in Las Vegas taken from Living with Michael Jackson, viewed through both the emerging consumer credit bubble and the temperance melodrama The Drunkard. It then turns to the ways testimony about Jackson’s finances, particularly his debts, played a pivotal role in his child molestation trial, reproducing a financialized melodramatic racial dialectic that emerged again in the subprime mortgage crisis. It concludes by reading parallels between accounts of Jackson’s physical wasting on the set of This Is It and that of the compulsively dancing child in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Red Shoes.” Both represent the process of disciplining past excesses through redemptive contraction as US austerity rhetoric reached a crescendo.

Eulogy for Michael Jackson

Bridges ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Author(s):  
Melinda Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

2009 ◽  
pp. 169-176
Author(s):  
Magnus Ramage ◽  
Karen Shipp
Keyword(s):  
Michael Jackson

scholarly journals Imagens-totens e circulação: a chancela jornalística no caso Michael Jackson

E-Compós ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Da Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Michael Jackson

Este artigo pretende investigar as estratégias que são promovidas para pôr em circulação as imagens jornalísticas. Trata-se, então, de um estudo sobre o que está distribuído midiaticamente e que é reinscrito em dispositivos diversos, portanto ao mesmo tempo circulação e circularidade. Assim, parte-se do pressuposto de que, cada vez mais há crescente número de imagens ofertadas, contudo, há um diminuto número de imagens que se fixam, as chamadas vetoras, ou que se tornam totens exatamente por seu potencial de fixação e autorreferencialidade, pois convocam estruturas profundas do imaginário e são chanceladas jornalisticamente. Para verificar tal hipótese, esta pesquisa apresenta como corpus um conjunto de imagens a respeito da morte de Michael Jackson. Como suporte teórico são empregados autores como Cassirer, Flusser, Baitelo Junior, Márcia Benetti e Ferreira, dentre outros. O que se busca responder é: como se dá a criação de imagens simbólicas ou totens pela midiatização?

scholarly journals Our queen of hearts' - the glorification of Lady Diana Spencer: a critical appraisal of the glorification of celebrities and new pilgrimage

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Céline Grünhagen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Elvis Presley ◽  
Religiosity And Spirituality ◽  
Michael Jackson

Religiosity and spirituality respectively have always been and will be subject to change. The emergence of the manifold forms of new religious and spiritual movements in the last century includes a variety of cult-like vener­ations of specific individuals, such as politicians (e.g. Mao, Lenin) and modern idols (e.g. Elvis Presley, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson), who are glorified like saints. Devotees gather annually for memorials of their departed idols or travel­ long distances to visit the tomb, former home, etc. of a specific person to pay tribute to him or her. Due to the motivations of these devotees, the trouble they take, the practices and the tangible emotionality that are connected with this phenomenon, it can be considered a form of pilgrimage. This article presents some thoughts about the glorification of celebrities which leads to these considerable forms of cult and pilgrimage, using as an example the case of Lady Diana Frances Spencer (d. 1997).

scholarly journals Examining personification in songs as one of the English teaching materials

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ika Apriani Fata ◽  
Annisa Aprilya
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
The Future ◽  
Michael Jackson ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research aims to figure out the types of personification used in one of the famous albums namely Michael Jackson's Thriller and Invincible. The sources of data were 19 songs taken from Thriller and Invincible albums by Michael Jackson and the lyrics of the songs. The research design used was descriptive qualitative research with documentation analysis as the technique of data collection. The result showed that there were 65 personification expressions found in the albums. Those 65 personifications were categorized into four types of personification as proposed by Dorst et al. (2011) namely: conventionalized personification (33 expressions), novel personification (20 expressions), default personification (12 expressions), and personification-with-metonymy (0 expressions). The idea of conventionalized personification presents in the lyrics is to dig out the beauty and tranquility of nature to life. It also might address giving an object or animal-human characteristics to create interesting imagery to the ELT Students. Also, these songs are assumed as one of the various English materials in language teaching in the future since it has no sarcasm and motivating contexts throughout the lyrics themselves.

Christopher Wheeldon

2021 ◽  
pp. 735-753
Author(s):  
Rachel Straus
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
The Press ◽  
Michael Jackson

In 2000, English-born Christopher Wheeldon became the first artist-in-residence at New York City Ballet (NYCB). The press compared his choreography to George Balanchine’s. This chapter discusses Wheeldon’s critically acclaimed NYCB ballet Polyphonia (2001) in relation to the “thick narrative” of the company’s history. It argues that Wheeldon’s collaborations with NYCB dancers Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto, in Polyphonia and other works, produced a unique aesthetic, one that transcended Balanchine’s neoclassical legacy. The chapter ends by considering how Wheeldon’s controversial decision to direct the Broadway musical about Michael Jackson is not out of character, but emblematic of his propensity to embrace the role of an outsider, who works to understand the unfamiliar and who surpasses what is expected of him.

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