Diana, The Making of a Media Saint

Title: Diana, The Making of a Media Saint
Editor(s): Jeffrey Richards, Scott Wilson & Linda Woodhead
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Date: 1999
Pages: 191
Size: 1.25 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

Above all, Diana is a postmodern saint because she enshrines, in riotous, contradictory, transforming, and disorganised fashion the conflicting values of the very different social and cultural dispensations which feed our times. [+/-]


Cultural critics across disciplines present here a thoughtful, illuminating discussion of the myth of Diana--her career, appeal and iconicity. Chapters include: the Hollywoodization of Diana; Diana as a symbol of global consumption and suffering; Diana and Islam; spatial Diana; Diana as exemplar of a new religion; Diana and the therapy culture; and much more. Contributors include Rosalind Brunt, Alvin Cohan, Simon Critchley, Richard Fenn, and Paul Heelas.

About the author
Jeffrey Richards, Scott Wilson, and Linda Woodhead work at the Institute of Cultural Research at Lancaster University, U.K.

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