Sentences with phrase «popular cult figure»
As a popular cult figure, however, Merrick must also take on all the other figures» contradictory dreams.
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In Updike's view, the ineluctable disappearance of religion in the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in Lilies).
Addressing the legacy of thinkers, activists, rock bands, contemporary artists and cult figures in pop culture, Hubbard reveals connections between what is perceived to be as more academic or inaccessible, and that which is more popular or widely disseminated.