Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe(玛丽莲.梦露)|报价￥71.40|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,Sarah Churchwell
品牌：Sarah Churchwell
基本信息
·出版社：Granta Books
·页码：336 页码
·出版日：2005年
·ISBN：9781862077546
·条码：9781862077546
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
内容简介
A brilliant investigation into the debates surrounding Marilyn Monroe's life and the cultural attitudes that her legend reveals
There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. Indeed, the writing and rewriting of this endlessly intriguing icon's life has produced more than six hundred books, from the long procession of "authoritative" biographies to the memoirs and plays by ex-husband Arthur Miller and the works by Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates. But even as the books have multiplied, myth, reality, fact, fiction, and gossip have become only more intertwined; there is still no agreement about such fundamental questions as Marilyn's given name, the identity of her father, whether she was molested as a child, and how and why she died.
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroereviews the unreliable and unverifiable-but highly significant-stories that have framed the greatest Hollywood legend. All the while, cultural critic Sarah Churchwell reveals us to ourselves: our conflicted views on women, our tormented sexual attitudes, our ambivalence about success, our fascination with self-destruction.
In incisive and passionate prose, Churchwell uncovers the shame, belittlement, and anxiety that we bring to the story of a woman we supposedly adore. In the process, she rescues a Marilyn Monroe who is far more complicated and credible than the one we think we know.
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From Publishers Weekly
Rather than add to the canon of morbid Monroe speculation,Times Literary Supplementcontributor Churchwell steps back to examine the examiners and ask: why has so much been written about Monroe, and what does this fixation say about our society? She doesn't provide any answers, but focuses instead on the phenomenon—she's fascinated by the investigation itself. Although Churchwell touches briefly on the few factual areas where biographers and conspiracy theorists agree, such as Monroe's marriages and film stats, she chooses to linger on the numerous crux points for commentators. Even something as mundane as how Monroe developed her characteristic hip-swinging strut has been hotly debated: the head of the star's former modeling agency maintains it was because of weak ankles, but an acting coach claims he invented it, and a gossip columnist insists Monroe shaved off part of one high heel so her walk would be uneven. Instead of trying to find the truth, Churchwell ponders why such seemingly minor aspects of Monroe's image draw such fervid attention in a culture already saturated with image, celebrity and sex. Churchwell culls a wealth of information about Monroe, providing insight on our celebrity culture, with a refreshingly detached perspective. 13 b&w photos.
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FromBooklist
Why add to the gargantuan Marilyn Monroe archives? Because that very assemblage of materials, many of them dubious enough to inspire Churchwell to call the lot of it an apocrypha, is exactly what her exhaustive yet searing analysis calls attention to. The "many lives" in her title refers to the Monroe icons created by Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, and Monroe's third husband, Arthur Miller, not to mention dozens of biographers, including Gloria Steinem. Wielding the precision tools of literary criticism, the interrogative skills of a prosecutor, and laser-sharp insights, Churchwell reveals just how permeated the discourse about Monroe is with misogyny, moralizing, speculation, eroticism, resentment, and fear. Mythologized as both innocent and whore, Monroe is seen as a tragic victim of her beauty and a wretched childhood instead of as a remarkably successful artist who possessed an unparalleled rapport with the camera, "comic genius," and true moxie. Churchwell's bold deconstruction of the Monroe myth (which includes theories about the unsolved mystery of her death) ultimately reveals the thin line between adoration and contempt.Donna Seaman
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