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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Chapter 3
Author : Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Published in: Fandom, Image and Authenticity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Hagiography, the study of saints, provides a template to analyse the increased importance placed on specific mediatised figures in popular culture. The creation, evolution, problems and maintenance of the canonising process bears striking similarities to the mechanisms propelling the idolisation of Curtis and Cobain. In this section, I will be examining the similarities between the hagiography process, the making and sustaining of saints in many contemporary organised religions, with the apparatus of media, marketing and evolution of the dead celebrity as a valued icon of commodity.