Opis:

What the mansion says of Elvis, and what it says to the millions of fans who make the journey there each year, is what Graceland: Going Home with Elvis is about. What made Elvis a visual icon was his concern for style. Karal Ann Marling interprets the places and the look of Elvis s life – from shotgun shack to mansion, through byways lined with luxury hotels, Hollywood studios, old churches, housing projects, motels and malls – as a dialogue he conducted with himself, his family and his fans.
Reconstructing the changing interior of Graceland during its owners lifetime, the book describes the cultural geography of Elvisness – his self-created material world – and of American mobility in the postwar era. In Marlings book we have a portrait of the materialist ideal of home, created in the commercial decadence of post-World War II America and fed by rock n roll.