Afterlife As Afterimage : Understanding

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 d

Acknowledgments

xi

In Memoriam

xiii

JULIE ANDSAGER

Introduction-On Fandom, Celebrity, and Mediation: Posthumous Possibilities

xv

JOLI JENSEN

Part I. Fans and the Production of Posthumous Fame

Chapter One: Better Off Dead: Or, Making It the Hard Way

3

(14)

STEVE JONES

Chapter Two: Altared Sites: Celebrity Webshrines as Shared Mourning

17

(14)

JULIE L. ANDSAGER

Chapter Three: Flaunting It: Style, Identity, and the Social Construction of Elvis Fandom

31

(30)

VAN M. CAGLE

Chapter Four: "Elvis Forever"

61

(20)

ERIKA DOSS

Part 2. Mediating Meanings: Case Studies in Posthumous Celebrity

Chapter Five: Commemoration as Crossover: "Remembering" Selena

81

(16)

MARY C. BELTRÁN

Chapter Six: Karen: The Hagiographic Impulse Anorexia in the Public Memory of a Pop Star

97

(24)

PEGGY J. BOWERS AND STEPHANIE HOUSTON GREY

Chapter Seven: Posthumous Patsy Clines: Constructions of Identity in Hillbilly Heaven

121

(22)

JOLI JENSEN

Chapter Eight: Collectively Remembering Tupac: The Narrative Mediation of Current Events, Cultural Histories, and Social Identities

143

(28)

GEORGE KAMBERELIS AND GREG DIMITRIADIS

Chapter Nine: Who Owns Him?: The Debate on John Lennon

171

(20)

JANNE MAKELA

Chapter Ten: Taming the Wildest: What We've Made of Louis Prima

191

(18)

JOHN J. PAULY

Chapter Eleven: The Strange Career of Robert Johnson's Records

209

(28)

ERIC W. ROTHENBUHLER

Part 3. Technology, Process, and Immortality

Chapter Twelve: A Career in Music: From Obscurity to Immortality

237

(16)

MARKO AHO

Chapter Thirteen: Dead Rock Stars 1900

253

(16)

JONATHAN STERNE

Conclusion: Echo Homo

269

(8)

STEVE JONES

List of Contributors

277

(4)

Index

281

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Afterlife As Afterimage : Understanding Posthumous Fame

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