John Lennon: Do Celebrities Die Anymore

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In Katrina Onstad’s essay, “John Lennon, Michael Jackson: Do Celebrities Die Anymore?” Onstad examines the progression of marketing images and works of dead celebrities, society’s reaction to this marketing strategy, and media industry insights into the phenomena. Throughout the essay, Onstad provides examples of digitally reanimated celebrities interacting with us, the living, long after their deaths and the ease with which technology accomplishes this. Onstad points to a potential *Celebrity Zero* as Elvis Presley, whose image would begin to appear on consumer goods such as t-shirts and kitschy wall art only a few years after his death. Onstad also discusses the progression of the public’s view on exhuming the famous, which has gone from

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