1st Edition

True Disbelievers Elvis Contagion

Edited By George Plasketes Copyright 1995
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

319 Pages
by Routledge

The legion of fans who refuse to believe that Elvis Presley died August 16, 1977 has been a major force behind the ever-expanding, elusive, and enduring Elvis myth during the past seventeen years. This network of fervent true believers engages in activities that include a melange of sightings and conspiracy theories. Mass media coverage of these phenomena has evolved from the underground... Read more
1. The Elvis Underground Network: True Believers or Voices in the Wilderness? 2. Memphis: Rock’s Watergate 3. The Creation of Orion: Kurosawa’s Rashomon Once Again 4. “I’m Caught in a Trap”—Jimmy Ellis/Orion 5. 1981: The False Prophets of Florida 6. The Devil is in the Details 7. “They Seek Him Here, They Seek Him There”: The Sightings Furor 8. Fans, Fanatics, and Fanzines 9. Television and the Disbelievers 10. The False Prophets?

Biography

R. Serge Denisoff, George Plasketes (Authors)