Books by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

A fascinating exploration of 'media pilgrimage' and what it tells us about our obsessions with celebrity and our desire for meaning and identity in an uncertain world.

Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world.