Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

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A&C Black, 2 aug. 2012 - 528 pagini
'An excellent book ... fascinating.' Telegraph
'A revelatory and intelligent tribute' Good Housekeeping
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Lois Banner's biography is revelatory.

Banner had access to material about Marilyn Munroe that no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe's psychiatric records, revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox.

No biographer before has attempted to analyse - much less realise - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has.
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'Banner gives us a powerful portrayal of a savvy self-publicist who worked tirelessly to ensure her trajectory from glamour model to screen goddess' Frances Wilson, Sunday Telegraph 'Book of the Week
 

Cuprins

Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
Trauma 19331938
Transcendence Ana and Jim 19381944
Photographers and Producers 19441946
Hollywood 19461955
Marilyn Ascending 19511954
Breakaway 19541955
Entracte A Woman for All Seasons
New York 19551960
Arthur 19561959
The Misfits 19591960
Return to Hollywood 19611962
Defiance and Death
Afterword
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Lois Banner is a founder of the field of women's history and cofounder of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the major academic event in the field. She was the first woman president of the American Studies Association, and in 2006 she won the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of ten books, including her acclaimed American Beauty and, most recently, MM--Personal, which reproduces and discusses items from Marilyn Monroe's personal archive. In addition to her books on Monroe, Banner is a major collector of her artefacts. Banner is a professor of history and gender studies at USC and lives in Southern California.

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