Volume 12, Issue 3

Abstract

This article is an examination of the posthumous cultification process in relation to the evolutionary trajectory of the star image of the late Sharon Tate. While Tate was known primarily for her beauty throughout the 1960s, the events of her death at the hands of the Manson Family in the summer of 1969 caused the rising star’s image to be drastically altered to solely that of a cult victim. Considering Jean Baudrillard’s theory of the hyperreal, this article explores how the reproduced images of Tate across the media phenomena of Mansonsploitation have subconsciously substituted the reality of Tate and her accomplishments within the minds of modern audiences.

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Keyword(s): cult stardom; hyperreal; Mansonsploitation; Sharon Tate; stardom

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