ItUniversity of Michigan Press, 2011年3月24日 - 280 頁 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. |
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... like you said, and even the marrow and all that, but I found her in the hat, and the shades, and the attitude. —Lyric Benson, on becoming the character of “Jackie O' introduction I belonged to the Public and to the world,
... character, story line, apparatus of production, and public consciousness of the work. “The shift of perception that celebrity allows,” Quinn notes, “is a key one, and is extraordinarily powerful: the audience's attitude shifts from an ...
Joseph Roach. the title character in the flapper revival Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), whose promoters breathlessly ... character of the great orator. For Zeami, the Zen-inflected theorist of Noh acting, It was the ninth and highest ...
... character's peace of mind. What Meredith calls “poignant antiphony” bestows a preternatural strangeness on It and often a certain social apartness on those who possess it. In children's games, the player ritually chosen to be “it” is ...
... 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 ...