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03203aam a22003498i 4500 001 696B7FDADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 221203s2023 nyu bq 001 0beng 010 $a 2022049875 020 $a 019763611X 020 $a 9780197636114 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PN2287.M69 $b B347 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20221223 100 1 $a Barrios, Richard, $e author. $9 217296 245 10 $a ON MARILYN MONROE : $b AN OPINIONATED GUIDE / $c Richard Barrios. 263 $a 2304 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/04/25 504 $a Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index. 505 0 $a Apprenticeships -- Breakthroughs -- The Fox blonde -- Seriously -- Detonating -- Tiffany's -- Due diligence -- No name required -- Course correction -- A sense of self -- Wait for Sugar -- Off Broadway -- The desert -- Full stop -- Legacies. 520 $a "She was born nearly a century ago and has been gone for well over half that time. The body of work she left behind is of limited size and, in some cases, debatable quality. The environment in which she thrived, popular entertainment in the 1950s, is a distant memory, if that. Those are indisputable facts. Why is it, then, that they seem so immaterial? How is it that the phenomenon continues unabated, that the iconography and mythology only seem to increase? Why all the interest and speculation and merchandising, and why all the documentaries and miniseries about her? Plus, to cut a little closer, all those shelves of books? With Marilyn Monroe, there is never one single answer. To start with one of the most obvious: some of it has to do with the elementof tragedy, the special kind that crashes in when a life of magnetic achievement and renown is cut short with miserable suddenness. Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Byron and Keats, Valentino, Hank Williams, James Dean, the Kennedys, Malcolm X, Dr. King,Joplin and Hendrix and Morrison, Elvis, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson. How natural to mourn, how easy to speculate on what could have been. Monroe offers unusually ripe territory for this, with her blatant, rapid-fire explosion into the world's consciousness, the tumult and visibility of her private and professional paths, and the sharply cut-off way she died, overlaid with just enough ambiguity to cause some people to wonder about the circumstances. From there, eventually and alas, to an unseemly franchise based on conjecture about that death, with most of the ruminations drenched in paranoia and personal agendas"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Monroe, Marilyn, $d 1926-1962 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Monroe, Marilyn, $d 1926-1962 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Motion picture actors and actresses $z United States $v Biography. $9 80437 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Barrios, Richard. $t On Marilyn Monroe $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] $z 9780197636138 $w (DLC) 2022049876 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230418010907.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=696B7FDADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search