"Bad" Biography Exposed! A Critical Analysis of American Super-Pop.

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      Biography has long played an important role within American life, and yet mass-market biographies remain underexamined. Theorizing so-called "popular biography" within twentieth-century American popular nonfiction and celebrity journalism, this article analyzes the genre's conventions and its centrality to celebrity discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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