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- catalog abstract "It doesn't matter how you remember him - rockabilly rebel, all-American boy, B-movie idol, patriotic GI, or Las Vegas superstar. Elvis Presley is the most enduring image in American popular culture. This book explains why. In researching Elvis Culture, Doss discovered that the visual image of Elvis endures because it was so carefully constructed from the start. Sifting through the visual glut of Elvisiana, she looks at how fans collect, arrange, and display Elvis paraphernalia, make Elvis artwork, and participate in the annual August rituals of Elvis Week. By engaging in these acts, she explains, they continually reinvent Elvis to mesh with their own personal and social preferences and to keep his memory alive. As engrossing as it is informative, Elvis Culture strikingly demonstrates the power of the visual image in our culture and reveals much about American attitudes toward religion, sex, race, and celebrity - as well as about the construction of American identity in the late twentieth century.".
- catalog contributor b11189743.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "As engrossing as it is informative, Elvis Culture strikingly demonstrates the power of the visual image in our culture and reveals much about American attitudes toward religion, sex, race, and celebrity - as well as about the construction of American identity in the late twentieth century.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "It doesn't matter how you remember him - rockabilly rebel, all-American boy, B-movie idol, patriotic GI, or Las Vegas superstar. Elvis Presley is the most enduring image in American popular culture. This book explains why. In researching Elvis Culture, Doss discovered that the visual image of Elvis endures because it was so carefully constructed from the start. Sifting through the visual glut of Elvisiana, she looks at how fans collect, arrange, and display Elvis paraphernalia, make Elvis artwork, and participate in the annual August rituals of Elvis Week. By engaging in these acts, she explains, they continually reinvent Elvis to mesh with their own personal and social preferences and to keep his memory alive.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 289 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Elvis culture.".
- catalog identifier "0700609482 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Elvis culture.".
- catalog isPartOf "Culture America".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Elvis culture.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "782.42166/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "ML420.P96 D68 1999".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States.".
- catalog subject "Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Rock music fans United States.".
- catalog title "Elvis culture : fans, faith, & image / Erika Doss.".
- catalog type "text".