Elvis culture : fans, faith, & image
著者
書誌事項
Elvis culture : fans, faith, & image
(Culture America / Karal Ann Marling & Erika Doss, series editors)
University Press of Kansas, c1999
大学図書館所蔵 全11件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
It doesn't matter how you remember him - rockabilly rebel, all-American boy, B-movie idol, patriotic GI or Las Vegas superstar. Elvis Presley is the most enduring image in American popular culture. This book aims to explain why. Other authors have explored Elvis's life and music, but this book examines his multifaceted image as the key to understanding the adulation that has survived his death. The author has talked with fans and joined their clubs, studied their creations and made pilgrimages to Graceland, all to explore what these images mean to those who gaze upon them, make them and collect them. In researching ""Elvis Culture"", she discovered that the visual image of Elvis endures because it was so carefully constructed from the start. She looks at how fans collect, arrange and display Elvis paraphernalia, make Elvis artwork, and participate in the annual August rituals of Elvis Week. By engaging in these acts, she explains, they continually reinvent Elvis to mesh with their own personal and social preferences and to keep his memory alive. The study examines Elvis in specific contexts: as a religious icon honoured in household shrines, as a focus of sexual fantasy, for women and men (both straight and gay), as an inspiration for countless impersonators, and as an emblem of whiteness held in disdain by many blacks - despite his having crossed racial lines with his music. It also looks at how Elvis has become a sanitized, legally protected image controlled by Elvis Presley Enterpises, Inc, which bans the sale of black velvet paintings and licences his likeness around the world.
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