Meet The Burtons 1 - The Celebrity Legacy of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the role which Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton played in initiating the nature of contemporary celebrity culture. Using the couple’s scandalous affair which took place during the filming of Cleopatra (1963) as a case study, the paper will explore how the collapse of the studio system, combined with the rise of the paparazzi and the development of the telephoto lens, led to the public’s insatiable appetite for images and details of celebrities’ private lives. As everything Taylor and Burton did made headlines around the world, it will be argued that the Burtons helped set the scene for today’s super celebrity couples like the Beckhams, Tom and Katie and Brad and Angelina. Opposing cultural decline views that celebrities are trivial and serve only commercial purposes, the paper proposes that celebrities are important cultural constructions, which, like time capsules, are capable of preserving vital information about the societies who consume and construct them. Thus, the analysis of Taylor and Burton’s public affair will be shown to contain important insights into the changing attitudes towards sex and marriage during the 1960s.
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