Dissecting Marilyn Manson

Dissecting Marilyn Manson. Marilyn Manson is more than a mere musician - he is a rock phenomenon. He has created a phantasmal world of freaks that has proved irresistible to a whole generation of disaffected youth. In Dissecting Marilyn Manson, Baddeley performs a cultural autopsy upon Manson, examining the seminal influences and psychotic sources that have gone into making him the fascinating Frankenstein monster that he is. With its heavily visual approach, the text and pictures help to create the impression of a pathological scrapbook, emphasising the idea of the performer being put under the knife, reflecting the Manson mythos and exploring it in an irreverent manner.