Afterlife as Afterimage: Understanding Posthumous FameSteve Jones, Joli Jensen The mass media make it possible for fame to be enhanced and transformed posthumously. What does it mean to fans when a celebrity dies, and how can death change the way that celebrities are perceived and celebrated? How do we mourn and remember? What can different forms of communication reveal about the role of media in our lives? Through a provocative look at the lives and legacy of popular musicians from Elvis to Tupac and from Louis Prima to John Lennon, Afterlife as Afterimage analyzes the process of posthumous fame to give us new insights into the consequences of mediation, and it illuminates the complex nature of fandom, community formation, and identity construction. |
Contents
Altared Sites Celebrity Webshrines as Shared Mourning | 17 |
Flaunting It Style Identity and the Social Construction | 31 |
Elvis Forever | 61 |
Commemoration as Crossover Remembering Selena | 81 |
Karen The Hagiographic Impulse Anorexia in the Public Memory | 97 |
Posthumous Patsy Clines Constructions of Identity | 121 |
Collectively Remembering Tupac The Narrative Mediation | 143 |
Who Owns Him? The Debate on John Lennon | 171 |
Taming the Wildest What Weve Made of Louis Prima | 191 |
The Strange Career of Robert Johnsons Records | 209 |
A Career in Music From Obscurity to Immortality | 237 |
Dead Rock Stars 1900 | 253 |
Echo Homo | 269 |
List of Contributors | 277 |
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