Monday, August 16, 2010

Best Book Cover Ever

As someone who love academic takes on popular culture, I nearly spit my water across my desk when I saw this spoof cover. This is BRILLIANT.



If only it were real. I'd totally read it. You can see the original post here.

4 comments:

JS said...

Brill. Did you ever see Beiber or die?

Joan Crawford said...

This is phenomenal.

But you can hear all the moms clucking their tongues: "I just don't know about that Bieber boy...Madison loves him but I just feel oogy about that new book."

Gillian Whitfield said...

@Joan: My thoughts exactly!

Fred said...

It wouldn't really be that hard to write a Bieber spoof essay. Here's a few titles:

"Jouissance and the Bieber Cut: The Oedipus Complex Unachieved"

"Archetypes of the Abject: Boy Pop Stars and Children of the Corn, an Analysis of Infantile Gaze"

"Is There a Song on this CD? Musical Style Beyond YouTube"

"Adolescent Patriarchy, the Political Unconscious and Ideology in Bieber's Lyrics"

and the most read spoof essay,

"Prandial Peregrinations and Opsomanic Desires: Gastromatic Entertainments and Erethismic Effects Due to the Troubadour Wassailian Gyre in Bieber Dance"

This last has to have been penned by that inimitable Dr. Pateman.