Jackie the Greek: the Onassis marriage and the hellenization of an American icon

Title:

Jackie the Greek: the Onassis marriage and the hellenization of an American icon

Creator:

Wills, David

Identifier:

https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143465

Subject:

Onassis, Hellenism, American satire, Skorpios, Greek shipowners, and Greek Studies

Type:

Article

Format:

text/pdf

Description:

A 1968 series of satirical audio sketches concerning the marriage and lifestyle of Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy provides an opportunity to re-examine the reputation of this famous couple. These recordings connect with well-known negative assumptions – both in the contemporaneous media and in the previously restricted governmental files from the British National Archives used here – about Kennedy's cynicism and Onassis' Greek heritage. It will also be argued here that Jackie's attempts to engage with Greece, especially Modern Greece, were a deliberate choice as part of her new identity, but in reality merely contributed to her damaged image.

Language:

English

Rights:

CC BY-SA 4.0 International
unknown

Relation:

https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/handle/11222.digilib/142018
https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/_flysystem/fedora/pdf/143465.pdf

Harvested from:

Digital Library of Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University

Metadata only:

false

Date:

2020