Michael Jackson's 1992 concert in Bucharest: Transforming a star into a saint

Celebrity Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 277-291

  Coman, Mihai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

celebrity culture; cult; journalistic discourse; media events; pilgrimage; ritualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859408982     PISSN: 19392397     EISSN: 19392400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2011.609334     Document Type: Article

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