The Iconic Imagery of Michael Jackson’s Dangerous World Tour and its afterlife – MJ Studies Today, April 2024

The 100th edition of MJ Studies Today looks at the iconography of Michael Jackson's Dangerous World Tour.

“I was happy for him, because he had been through so much; I wanted him to be the King again.” Kenny Ortega on Michael Jackson and “This Is It”: trial evidence, August 2013.

What follows is not an exact transcript of the reports tweeted by ABC7 Courts between breaks in the civil trial proceedings today. Rather I have attempted to group, condense and excerpt some parts of Kenny Ortega's testimony, inserted punctuation, emphasis...

“A spirit embodied by music”: considering Michael Jackson’s This Is It documentary on its anniversary 2020 – MJ Studies Today, November 2020

Abstract: “Michael Jackson’s This Is It”, the movie, premiered eleven years ago – on October 28, 2009, just four months after the King of Pop’s death had shocked the world. Opinions on the film have differed markedly amongst Jackson’s fan-base,...