Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Monroe: sex symbols and the naked truth
2024; Routledge; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19392397.2024.2323463
ISSN1939-2400
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoPamela Anderson is one of the latest in a long line of Hollywood sex symbols that reveal a persistent obsession with celebrities as arbiters of sexual standards and knowledge. Specifically, Anderson's star image is situated in relation to Marilyn Monroe's eroticised identity of the 1950s. In addition to the obvious surface similarities that exist with Anderson and Monroe (hyperfeminine, platinum blondes, Playboy centrefolds, numerous marriages, sex scandals), they both epitomise the role of sex symbol, and the tension famous women face between a public and private self, objectification and subjectivity. The public's desire to learn about the real women behind the sex symbols becomes a quest to learn a form of 'truth' about sexuality itself.
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