Description
| Product ID: | 9781526613349 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah Churchwell |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Films, cinema, Films, cinema, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography and non-fiction prose, Popular culture, Social and cultural anthropology, Biography: arts & entertainment, Prose: non-fiction, Popular culture, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight’ VOGUE‘Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories’ NEW YORK TIMESIntricately researched. Churchwell’s Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense – the human sense’ OBSERVERThere are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, screen legend and Hollywood victim. In this incisive and subtle book, Sarah Churchwell looks at how the stories we tell have trivialised a woman we supposedly adore, and at what they reveal about our attitudes towards sex symbols and icons, to women, death, biography and Marilyn herself. ‘Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight’ VOGUE‘Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories’ NEW YORK TIMESIntricately researched. Churchwell’s Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense – the human sense’ OBSERVERThere are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, screen legend and Hollywood victim.In this incisive and subtle book, Sarah Churchwell looks at how the stories we tell have trivialised a woman we supposedly adore, and at what they reveal about our attitudes towards sex symbols and icons, to women, death, biography and Marilyn herself. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-03-07 |