MARILYN MONROE’S STAR CANON: POSTWAR AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE SEMIOTICS OF STARDOM
Although Marilyn Monroe was one of the most famous American film stars, and a monumental cultural figure, her film work has been studied far less than her biography. Applying C.S. Peirce’s semiotic categories of icon, index, and symbol, this research explains how Monroe acquired meaning as an actres...
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UKnowledge
2016
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/28 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=english_etds |