Zapraszam do lektury .... The news of Michael Jackson’s death on 25 June 2009, a few days before a concert tour, circled the world and began an avalanche of stories about his life in the media. The author concentrates on those stories in which the musician is presented as a mythic hero. He uses Joseph Campbell’s idea of the monomyth in his analyses and begins by describing its basic points. Then he portrays Jackson’s funeral, which was transmitted worldwide, as a media event and refers in this context to the ideas of Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz. He analyzes the funeral orations in terms of their representativeness of a certain type of narrative, i.e., they present Jackson as a hero changing the shape of the world by his actions. In the end, the author points to the need for further reflection on tales of mythic heroes in contemporary popular culture. degruyter/view/j/kultura.2013.57.issue-4/kultura-2014-0008/kultura-2014-0008.xml?format=INT
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