Dissecting Marilyn Manson

by Gavin Baddeley

Book Overview

In Dissecting Marilyn Manson, author Gavin Baddeley performs a cultural autopsy upon Manson, examining the seminal influences and psychotic sources that have gone into making him the Frankenstein monster that he is today. With its heavily visual approach, the text and pictures create the impression of a pathological scrapbook, emphasising the idea of the performer being put under the knife, exploring the Manson mythos in an irreverent but authoritative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859653293
• ISBN13: 9780859653299
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Plexus Publishing (UK)
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The best book you will find on Marilyn Manson.

An absolutely awesome exploration of everything Marilyn Manson. If you ever thought that Marilyn Manson was just a mere "show and tell"...this book will show you wrong. As this book reveals (and even a fact or two that will catch Mansonites off gaurd) Marilyn Manson is the most complicated and wildly entertaining pardoxial visionary of the 1990's, and remains a historical phenemona. A great book, a must have for fans, and a great read for anybody who is intrigued by Marilyn Manson's intellectual and genuinly artistic lifestyle.

Admirable Journalism

I have read more than my fair share of interviews and editorials on this artist; it is a must for anyone tired of them, hungary for more, or simply curious. Essentially devoid of meaningless non-commital banter, the author manages to address nearly every subject parralel and adjacent to the band's life and leader. It was such an intriguing read that I still think about it whenever any aspect of the artist comes up in daily life. In fact, for the purpose of journalistic study, I try to make time to read over it again.

Dissection

The book dissecting Marilyn Manson has a lot of information for the man himself Marilyn Manson with the help of Gavin Baddeley and other the book takes on a life of its own with vivid pictures I find something new in it every time I read the book.

Compleat and Extensive

This book gently tears apart the collage like coponents of Marilyn Manson thus collected and presented. Leaving no stone unturned, it also delves into other icons, stars, and writers with a complete thoroughness to better explain Manson as a person, icon, and myth. It is by far the best collected narrative on Manson with an extreme depth and understanding of the territory and other trash culture which is highly evident in this and other books by the author.

Uncommonly comprehensive. Absolutely necessary.

If you're looking for a Marilyn Manson biography, this is certainly not the book you should buy. "Dissecting Marilyn Manson" goes beyond comparison and beneath the surface. It discusses what lies under one of the most controversial artists ever, providing the reader with special information on Freud, KISS, Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney, Roald Dahl, Alice Cooper, NIN,Aleister Crowley,Dr. Hook, Baudelaire,Marquis de Sade, Darwin, Nietzche, Pink Floyd, Anton LaVey, The Beatles, Oscar Wilde, Masoch, Kenneth Anger, David Lynch and John Kennedy and these people's influences on Manson's thoughtas well as some curiosities on a number of different subjects as smoking, drugs, transvestites, cultural archetypes Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson, internet and fascism.This is the newest publication on Marilyn Manson and as so, it comes with a lot of recent information, absent in older books, as well as some great colorful pictures of the book's subject.Written by a really skilled author who, as all satanists, really knows what he''s talking about, "Dissecting Marilyn Manson" is a really complete and deep piece of literature that leaves no lack of information. After the Long Hard Road out of Hell, this is the first time I see a book worthy of dealing with such a cultural phenomenon as Marilyn Manson is.