ItUniversity of Michigan Press, 24 մրտ, 2011 թ. - 280 էջ A consumer’s guide to iconic celebrity and ageless glamour “Strikingly original, wickedly witty, and thoroughly learned, Roach’s anatomy of abnormally interesting people and the vicarious pleasure we take in our modern equivalents to gods and royals will captivate its readers from the first page. I dare you to read just one chapter!” —Felicity Nussbaum, University of California, Los Angeles “It considers the effect that arises when spectacularly compelling performers and cultural fantasy converge, as in the outpouring of public grief over the death of Princess Diana. . . . An important work of cultural history, full of metaphysical wit . . . It gives us a fresh vocabulary for interpreting how after-images endure in cultural memory.” —Andrew Sofer, Boston College “Joseph Roach’s enormous erudition, sharp wit, engaging style, and gift for finding the most telling historical detail or literary quote are here delightfully applied to the intriguing subject of why certain historical and theatrical figures have possessed a special power to fascinate their public.” —Marvin Carlson, Graduate Center, City University of New York That mysterious characteristic “It”—“the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people”—is the subject of Joseph Roach’s engrossing new book, which crisscrosses centuries and continents with a deep playfulness that entertains while it enlightens. Roach traces the origins of “It” back to the period following the Restoration, persuasively linking the sex appeal of today’s celebrity figures with the attraction of those who lived centuries before. The book includes guest appearances by King Charles II, Samuel Pepys, Flo Ziegfeld, Johnny Depp, Elinor Glyn, Clara Bow, the Second Duke of Buckingham, John Dryden, Michael Jackson, and Lady Diana, among others. |
From inside the book
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... social sciences, including those at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale, led by Jeffrey Alexander, will not conclude that my historical approach has unduly constrained the expansiveness of performance theory. After four decades of ...
... social performances that resemble it consist of struggle, the simultaneous experience of mutually exclusive possibilities—truth and illusion, presence and absence, face and mask. Performers are none other than themselves doing a job in ...
... social apartness on those who possess it. In children's games, the player ritually chosen to be “it” is simultaneously elected and ostracized. There is a kind of freakishness to having It, and despite the allure, a potential for ...
... social character of what had once looked like miracles. The most fertile historical period for that emergence is very extensive, but it is not boundless. The Deep Eighteenth Century Scholars have accepted the notion of a long eighteenth ...
... social control.”3 In the sex battles of the adversary lovers, whose obstacles tend to arise within themselves rather than from the external resistance of blocking characters, fear of self-disclosure sharpens tactics of self-governance ...
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1 Accessories | 45 |
2 Clothes | 82 |
3 Hair | 117 |
4 Skin | 146 |
5 Flesh | 174 |
6 Bone | 205 |
Notes | 233 |
Index | 251 |