{"product_id":"elizabeth-taylor-ellis-cashmore-9781628920697","title":"Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption","description":"The first volume to examine the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in this light, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption\u003c\/i\u003e paints Taylor as the seminal representation of \"celebrity.\" A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, she intrigued a global audience with her marriages and extra-marital improprieties, as well as her extravagant jewelry, her never-ending illnesses, her dependency on alcohol, and her perplexing friendship with Michael Jackson. Despite her continued world-renown, however, most people would be hard-pressed to name even three of her films, though she made over seventy. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEllis Cashmore traces our modern, hyperactive celebrity culture back to a single instant in Taylor's life: the publicizing of her scandalous affair with Richard Burton by photographer Marcelo Geppetti in 1962, which announced the arrival of a new generation of predatory photojournalists and, along with them, a strange conflation between the public and private lives of celebrities. Taylor's life and public reception, Cashmore reveals, epitomizes the modern phenomenon of \"celebrity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellis Cashmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628920696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628920697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/18\/2016","brand":"Ellis Cashmore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939403890943,"sku":"9781628920697","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c4bde639-e441-471b-93d7-77cd7dfd4556.jpg?v=1681441290","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/elizabeth-taylor-ellis-cashmore-9781628920697","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}