{"product_id":"9781628920680","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.”","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171780739312,"sku":"9781628920680","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628920680_p0.jpg?v=1763870223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628920680","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}