Celebrity Death Cult
Celebrity Death Cult

Author: David Conway

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0244058407

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TURN OFF, TUNE OUT, TRANSFORM! "WHEN I HEAR THE WORD 'CELEBRITY' I REACH FOR MY REVOLVER!" The Revelations will be televised as the suicide bombing of a television studio and the symbolic on-stage martyrdom of a charismatic rock star present the world with a startling new phenomenon. The Radicalized Celebrity. Investigating a wave of attacks against high-profile media targets, lifestyle magazine editor, Miranda Black, participates in the A-List Asylum reality TV show, staged in a disused madhouse by the controversial psychiatrist, Dr Phaedra Lake. And, as the programme approaches its violent climax, Miranda finally discovers the truth behind the escalating terror campaign and the subversive ideology its visionary founder describes as "a quantum leap into an unimaginable future." CELEBRITY DEATH CULT combines satire with the conspiracy-thriller genre and dystopian science fiction to depict a psychopathic mass-media environment in which the Cult of Celebrity and urban terrorism collide catastrophically.

Prince Death Cult – Who Killed Prince and Why They Cover It Up?
Prince Death Cult – Who Killed Prince and Why They Cover It Up?

Author: Greg Norton

Publisher: Greg Norton

Published:

Total Pages: 8

ISBN-13:

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Why Prince died? Is there a media cover-up of what actually happened? If so, who's involved? This is NOT a biography book about the pop legend Prince. This is a wake-up call for millions of fans around the world, because Prince was a very private person. We are going to uncover some of the mysteries about his death and the entertainment industry. Some people lost their lives over what we are going to be sharing with you, so this is a very sensitive information, but you must know the truth. We urge you to spread the word about this short book and get people involved to shed a light on what's really going on, because that's what Prince was fighting all of his life. There's a connection between Prince and Michael Jackson's deaths. We are also going to expose that in this edition as well. It's time to learn the truth! Grab your copy now!

Those who Died Young
Those who Died Young

Author: Marianne Sinclair

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Death gave a new awareness of these stars, a new vision of how they had really been or now seemed to have been. The hindsight of death gives new meaning to old responses, irremediable altering our emotional reaction to these heroes as well as our appraisal of them. It is this curios phenomenon which the author has explored in this book.

Shocking Celebrity Deaths and Murders
Shocking Celebrity Deaths and Murders

Author: Dylan Frost

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2022-01-14

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 375540530X

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Despite their wealth, fame, and power, celebrities are ultimately just flesh and blood like all of us. Their status or accomplishments are not a magical shield of protection when it comes to death. In fact, in some cases, celebrities are more vulnerable than your averge person. As we shall see in this book, a number of celebrities have been murdered by their own fans. A number of celebrities have also been murdered in cases that remain unsolved. Fame can be a fickle and fleeting phenomenon and Hollywood is awash with former child stars who died in tragic circumstances when the phone stopped ringing and the money rang out. In this book we will look at a number of celebrity deaths and murders. The cases that follow are eclectic and all darkly fascinating. Drug overdoses, murders, suicides, crazed fans, unsolved deaths, autoerotic asphyxiation, car crashes, freak accidents, drownings, disease, and so on...

Dead Celebrities, Living Icons
Dead Celebrities, Living Icons

Author: John David Ebert

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2010-06-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313377642

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The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Dead Celebrities, Living Icons documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight. --from publisher description.

Dead Celebrities, Living Icons
Dead Celebrities, Living Icons

Author: John David Ebert

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-06-02

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0313377650

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This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways—ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day. We know their likes and dislikes, admire their talents, envy them for daring to be what we can't or what we won't. When they are snatched from us, we feel a personal loss and an unwillingness to let go. And so we transform these mere human beings into icons whose stars often shine in death even more brilliantly than in life. Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar explores this phenomenon through a series of essays on 14 men and women who are, arguably, the most famous people of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Far more than just a collection of biographies, Dead Celebrities, Living Icons documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight.

Fame
Fame

Author: Tom Payne

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2010-10-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1429943432

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We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do we treat the ones we love like burnt offerings in a ritual of human sacrifice? Perhaps because that is exactly what they are. From Greek mythology to the stories of the Christian martyrs and Dr. Faustus, Payne makes the fascinating argument that our relationship to celebrity is perilous, and that we wouldn't have it any other way. He also shows that the people we choose as our heroes and villains throughout the ages says a lot about ourselves—and what it says is often quite frightening. Fame even brings new life to all the literary figures from our high school English classes. In these pages, the most ephemeral reality television stars (those "famous for being famous") find themselves in the same VIP lounge as the characters of The Iliad. With great wit, scholarship, and insight, Tom Payne draws the narratives of the past and the present into one intriguing story. Fame is a dazzling, hilarious look at the mortals, and the immortals—us and them.

Cult Cinema
Cult Cinema

Author: Ernest Mathijs

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1444396439

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Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinema Offers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the center of current academic debate Covers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult cinema, as well as historical insights into the topic