Michael Jackson’s Radical Aesthetic
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2025
Routledge
978-1-041-20156-4 (ISBN)
Routledge
978-1-041-20156-4 (ISBN)
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This two-volume work encourages students, fans, and scholars to take an expansive view of Michael Jackson’s art. Focusing on his films as well as a theoretical framework for interpreting his other work, it demonstrates the depth and scope of his art and its far-reaching cultural significance.
This two-volume work encourages students, fans, and scholars to take an expansive view of Michael Jackson’s art. Focusing on his films, which it approaches as exquisite works of art as well as a theoretical framework for interpreting his other work, it demonstrates the depth and scope of his art and its far-reaching cultural significance. Specifically, it demonstrates how Jackson engaged in a sophisticated process of telling, untelling, and retelling entrenched cultural narratives that perpetuate prejudice, and how he modified affective responses to racial signifiers and other marks of difference. In this way, Jackson confronted prejudice more profoundly than any other American artist in recent memory.
This work also takes a detailed look at the allegations of child sexual abuse. These were so shattering for Jackson both personally and creatively that his life and career divide into two parts – a division reflected in the two-volume structure of this work. Volume One focuses on Jackson’s early films followed by analysis of the allegations, including historical factors that may have influenced how the police, press, and public reacted. Volume Two then focuses on the art Jackson created in response, including some of the most poignant, political, and significant work of his career.
Volume Two also looks at evolving perceptions of Jackson’s face and persona, approaching them as revolutionary yet deeply troubling works of art – works that became even more unsettling as Jackson wrestled with the intense emotions unleashed by the abuse allegations. It posits that popular perceptions of Jackson’s face and persona were illusions that performed critically important cultural functions, and that Jackson himself – the man behind the illusion – was a trickster artist. It concludes that Jackson was the most important American artist of our time, and that his face was his masterpiece. However, it only arrives at these conclusions after careful analysis of his films. It’s through his films that Jackson articulates his aesthetic. Therefore, it’s his films that make his face legible.
This two-volume work encourages students, fans, and scholars to take an expansive view of Michael Jackson’s art. Focusing on his films, which it approaches as exquisite works of art as well as a theoretical framework for interpreting his other work, it demonstrates the depth and scope of his art and its far-reaching cultural significance. Specifically, it demonstrates how Jackson engaged in a sophisticated process of telling, untelling, and retelling entrenched cultural narratives that perpetuate prejudice, and how he modified affective responses to racial signifiers and other marks of difference. In this way, Jackson confronted prejudice more profoundly than any other American artist in recent memory.
This work also takes a detailed look at the allegations of child sexual abuse. These were so shattering for Jackson both personally and creatively that his life and career divide into two parts – a division reflected in the two-volume structure of this work. Volume One focuses on Jackson’s early films followed by analysis of the allegations, including historical factors that may have influenced how the police, press, and public reacted. Volume Two then focuses on the art Jackson created in response, including some of the most poignant, political, and significant work of his career.
Volume Two also looks at evolving perceptions of Jackson’s face and persona, approaching them as revolutionary yet deeply troubling works of art – works that became even more unsettling as Jackson wrestled with the intense emotions unleashed by the abuse allegations. It posits that popular perceptions of Jackson’s face and persona were illusions that performed critically important cultural functions, and that Jackson himself – the man behind the illusion – was a trickster artist. It concludes that Jackson was the most important American artist of our time, and that his face was his masterpiece. However, it only arrives at these conclusions after careful analysis of his films. It’s through his films that Jackson articulates his aesthetic. Therefore, it’s his films that make his face legible.
Willa Stillwater has a PhD in English. Her doctoral research focused on the many ways cultural narratives are made real by being inscribed on the body, which she sees as an important concept in Jackson’s work.
Volume 1
PRELUDE: TELLING, UNTELLING, AND RETELLING
ACT ONE: THE EARLY FILMS
Chapter 1: Selected Films of the 1980s, Chapter 2: Moonwalker and Its Component Films, Chapter 3: Selected Dangerous Films
ACT TWO: A TIME OF CRISIS:
Chapter 4: Historical Contexts, Chapter 5: The Allegations, Chapter 6: Additional Factors Influencing Perceptions
CODETTA
Volume 2
TELLING, UNTELLING, AND RETELLING (Reprise)
ACT THREE: A NEW KIND OF ART
Chapter 7: Selected Later Films, Chapter 8: The Art of the Grotesque, Chapter 9: The Trickster Artist
CODA: ENCHANTING AND DISENCHANTING
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 22 Halftones, black and white; 22 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-041-20156-7 / 1041201567 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-041-20156-4 / 9781041201564 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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