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Social Distortion: Weegee's Marilyn

Social Distortion: Weegee's Marilyn

Andrew Dominik's "Blonde" Through The Lens of Weegee's Crime Photography

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Marya E. Gates
Sep 28, 2022
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Unfortunately, I am still thinking about the catastrophic and grotesque disaster that is Andrew Dominik’s Blonde, his long-gestating adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s book of the same name, itself a fictionalized account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe. Neither are straight biography, and even if they were no biography (including autobiography)…

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