Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater cultural importance by analyzing her as a postmodern myth. This work examines how Madonna methodically discovered and constructed herself (often rewriting her past), the nature and extent of her ambition and the means she used to reach her goals. It also details the way in which she organized her own cult (borrowing from the gay community), devised her artistic output, and cunningly targeted different audiences. It also studies the fundamental contradiction--virgin or vamp? saint or prostitute?--that fuels…mehr
Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater cultural importance by analyzing her as a postmodern myth. This work examines how Madonna methodically discovered and constructed herself (often rewriting her past), the nature and extent of her ambition and the means she used to reach her goals. It also details the way in which she organized her own cult (borrowing from the gay community), devised her artistic output, and cunningly targeted different audiences. It also studies the fundamental contradiction--virgin or vamp? saint or prostitute?--that fuels Madonna's career and describes how Madonna reflects today's society, its contradictions and its attitudes toward sexuality and religion.
Georges-Claude Guilbert is an American studies and gender studies professor at the Universite Le Havre Normandie, France. He supervises several doctoral students, in gender studies and LGBTQ+ studies. He lives in Notre Dame de Bondeville, France.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface PART 1: Definitions Myth Postmodern: The Story So Far PART 2: Desperately Seeking Stardom Personal and Methodic Construction Ambitious Grammar An Organized Cult: The Wizard and Gays Recuperation PART 3: The Fundamental Contradiction The Virgin and the Vamp The Mother and the Whore PART 4: Drag The Expression Under the Mask Voguing Along Hollywood Palimpsests: Greta, Rita, Dita, and Others PART 5: America's Mirror The American Dream Sex and Puritanism A Feminist Credo? Madonna, Backer of the Patriarchy? Conclusion Notes Madonna's Works: References Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface PART 1: Definitions Myth Postmodern: The Story So Far PART 2: Desperately Seeking Stardom Personal and Methodic Construction Ambitious Grammar An Organized Cult: The Wizard and Gays Recuperation PART 3: The Fundamental Contradiction The Virgin and the Vamp The Mother and the Whore PART 4: Drag The Expression Under the Mask Voguing Along Hollywood Palimpsests: Greta, Rita, Dita, and Others PART 5: America's Mirror The American Dream Sex and Puritanism A Feminist Credo? Madonna, Backer of the Patriarchy? Conclusion Notes Madonna's Works: References Bibliography Index
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