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"Bad" Biography Exposed!: A Critical Analysis of American Super-Pop
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 42, Number 2, 2019
- pp. 355-377
- 10.1353/bio.2019.0031
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Biography has long played an important role within American life, and yet mass-market biographies remain underexamined. Theorizing so-called "popular biography" within twentieth-century American popular nonfiction and celebrity journalism, this article analyzes the genre's conventions and its centrality to celebrity discourse.
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