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This title in other editionsA Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelationsby Cintra Wilson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Whether you lust after it, loathe it, or feign apathy toward it, fame is in your face. Cintra Wilson gets to the heart of our humiliating fascination with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings in these hilarious, whip-smart, and subversive essays. Often radical and always a scream, Wilson takes on every sacred cow, toppling icons as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Ike Turner, Michael Jackson, and-for obvious reasons-Bruce Willis. She exposes events like the Oscars and even athletic jamborees as having grown a "tumescent aura of Otherness." Wilson's scathing and irresistible dissections of Las Vegas as "the Death Star of Entertainment," and Los Angeles as "a giant peach of a dream crawling with centipedes" pulse with her enlightened rejection of all things false and vain and egotistical. Written with her trademark zeal and intelligence, A Massive Swelling is the antidote for the fame virus that infects us all. Synopsis:Columnist and critic Wilson takes on every pop-art sacred cow imaginable, toppling icons as diverse as Barbara Streisand, Michael Jackson, and Bruce Willis. Cherished for her "laser-light" prose, she gets to the heart of the humiliating fascination with celebrity and all its preposterous trappings. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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