Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a " What is it"? What do P.T. barnum, Peter pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a chil prodigy on the "chitlin'circuit" infrom his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson's celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy?
What is the perverse appeal of child stars for these children and for us? What uncanniess provoked Michael Jackson to become "Alone of all His Race, Alone of all Her Sex." while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neoGothic,dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music video? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson's presumed monstorsity? In short,how are we all of us implicated?
- Freaks
- Home
- Star Child
- Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex
- The Trial