EAN: 9780349017716

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to read fizzing with intelligence' Megan Nolan Telegraph 'Wildly entertaining' Dazed 'Snow's prose is beautiful white-hot and breathless like a sports car speeding through the canyon' Observer --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How does an icon become an icon? How did Anna Nicole Smith model herself on Marilyn Monroe? What connects Lindsay Lohan with Elizabeth Taylor? How is self-made beauty Pamela Anderson like trans bond girl Caroline 'Tula' Cossey? In a series of interconnected essays about pairs of famous women award-nominated essayist and art critic Philippa Snow explores the echoes and connections between a constellation of female stars and lays bare the artful and gruelling demands of femininity - from the golden age of Hollywood to the Instagram era. Full of the fascinating entertaining and lurid details you might expect from the lives of mega-famous celebrities dissected with icicle-sharp intelligence and rendered in stylish flamboyant prose Philippa Snow's first full-length non-fiction work is a radically insightful book about the complex meanings and layers of femininity in a male-dominated world.

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