Draws on interviews with more than one hundred industry intimates to explore the musical performer's development as an artist, mythological figure, and woman, offering insight into how her work reflects her life.
Draws on interviews from more than one hundred industry insiders to explore the musical performer's development as an artist, cultural icon, and woman, offering insight into how her work reflects her life.
Offers new perspectives on Madonna's work to date. An international array of scholars portrays her popularisation of the notion that identity is not fixed and can be continuously rearranged and revamped. Explores the themes of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and celebrity comsumpti…
Scholars of literature and popular culture explore the metamorphoses of the enduring American pop music singer. Within sections on gender, sexual, and ethnic identities and on consuming celebrity, they consider narrative agendas in Madonna's musical production, androgyny and oth…
"The present volume offers new perspectives on Madonna's work to date, addressing her configurations of race, gender and sex(uality), with special emphasis on her resurrection after the Sex backlash in the early 1990s." "The collection focuses on new Madonna-related topics such …
"The present volume offers new perspectives on Madonna's work to date, addressing her configurations of race, gender and sex(uality), with special emphasis on her resurrection after the Sex backlash in the early 1990s." "The collection focuses on new Madonna-related topics such…
"The present volume offers new perspectives on Madonna's work to date, addressing her configurations of race, gender and sex(uality), with special emphasis on her resurrection after the Sex backlash in the early 1990s." "The collection focuses on new Madonna-related topics such…
A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.