The Pink Suit 1 : Jacqueline Kennedy and celebrity defilement
2013; Routledge; Volume: 5; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19392397.2013.817762
ISSN1939-2400
Autores Tópico(s)Gender, Feminism, and Media
ResumoThis paper addresses the concept of celebrity defilement. It isolates one fact in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' life – the pink suit she was wearing when her husband President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas – and asks why it is remembered and remarked upon in every account of her life and death. The study uses Onassis' obituaries, biographies and memoirs, biographies of JFK, and also coverage of her time in the White House. It situates both Onassis and the pink suit in the context of a particular kind of celebrity: the female celebrity who by her perceived exoticism, and her concurrent unwillingness to acknowledge her public – her enduring silence – is in need of some symbolic discipline. The persistent memory of the bloody pink suit is the sign of that discipline.
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