Episode 71 – Stranger In Moscow & They Don’t Care About Us

Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On An Academic Conversation

Abstract: In episode 71, Karin and Elizabeth discuss the two short films Stranger In Moscow & They Don’t Care About Us alongside Karin’s Essay: From Throne To Wilderness: Michael Jackson’s Stranger In Moscow. They look into how Stranger in Moscow and They Don’t Care About Us, signify the perceptual and mirror the message MJ wanted us to see and hear?

REFERENCE AS:

Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. “Episode 71 – ‘Stranger In Moscow & They Don’t Care About Us’, Michael Jackson’s Dream Lives On An Academic Conversation 10, no. 4 (2023). Published electronically 21/07/2023. https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/episode-71-stranger-in-moscow-they-don’t-care-about-us

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Episode 71– Stranger In Moscow & They Don’t Care About Us
By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu

Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of ‘A festive parade of Highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’. Find out more about Karin here.

Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is the editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here.

References

1. Michael Jackson, Stranger In Moscow, 1995.
2. Michael Jackson, They Don’t Care About Us, 1995.
3. Karin Merx, ‘From Throne To Wilderness: Michael Jackson’s Stranger In Moscow and The Foucauldian Outlaw’, The Journal Of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, vol1, issue 4, 2015.
4. Elizabeth Amisu, The Dangerous Philosophies Of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Preager, 2016).