Cultural depictions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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A major American icon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has been portrayed, alluded to, and referred to in many media in the popular culture from the 1960s and continuing into the 21st century.

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Art

Film references

Portrayals

Other references in film

TV films

TV miniseries

TV series

Literature

(Alphabetical by author)

Steven Rowley's The Editor is a novel about a writer for whom Jackie Onassis is the erceptive and kind editor of his first novel.

The following are books in which Onassis is referenced biographically:

Music

Artists

Songs

Plays and theatrical works

Television and anime references

(Alphabetical by series)

Internet memes

In 2022 on Twitter and TikTok, users began posting memes that satirizing Jackie Kennedy's physical appearance and depicting her as a feral creature who ate and enjoyed multiple obtuse objects such as sheet metal, spare change (pennies) and the White House's marble columns, among others. The memes are usually accompanied by audios of growling noises and captions in similar vein to "JACKIE WANT SHEET METAL!!!" [21] [22]

Video games

Notes and references

α The show's developers created this character and named her after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, whose maiden name was Bouvier. It is also noted that Marge Simpson has the maiden name "Bouvier", and all Bouvier women are voiced by Julie Kavner.

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ 16 Jackies Archived 2002-11-13 at the Wayback Machine , Walker Art Center, accessed 2012-04-30.
  2. ↑ Fallon, Michael (2010), "16 Jackies", How to Analyze the Works of Andy Warhol, ABDO, pp. 48–52, ISBN   978-1-61613-534-8, Besides Marilyn Monroe, another favorite celebrity subject early in Warhol's career was Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy, the wife of President John F. Kennedy. ... Warhol had been deeply affected by [president Kennedy's assassination], which was covered widely in the mass media.
  3. ↑ Morris, Daniel (2002), Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art, University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 157–158, ISBN   978-1-55849-324-7, Warhol wanted to exist as an "after" image in the realm of appearances alongside such celebrated survivors of cultural violence as Jackie O., whom Warhol depicted in a series of panels as she appeared on the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination and in the sad days that followed.
  4. ↑ Dietmar Elger (2010), Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting, Elizabeth M. Solaro (trans.), University of Chicago Press, p. 50, ISBN   978-0-226-20323-2, But he also painted prominent figures without revealing their identities; the nearly unmistakable figure of Jacqueline Kennedy thus hides behind the title Woman with Umbrella.
  5. ↑ Jacqueline Kennedy, the King of Hearts - Stop Action Reaction, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, accessed 2012-04-29.
  6. ↑ "New Faces In Washington", CBS News , February 11, 2009, Two pieces from Mion's series of paintings of the first ladies - "Stop Action Reaction" portraying Kennedy and "Eyes Only for You" portraying Reagan - show the subjects not as "stiff formal figures but as women whose personal stories represent women's experiences," Reaves said. The portrait of Kennedy shows her holding a "king" playing card depicting her husband, John F. Kennedy, with the card shattered by a bullet.
  7. ↑ O'Sullivan, Michael (June 1, 2007), "Portraiture Now: Framing Memory", The Washington Post , archived from the original on September 19, 2012, In "Stop Action Reaction," Jacqueline Kennedy holds a playing card -- with JFK as the king of hearts -- that's been penetrated by a bullet. It's a clever conflation of that famous high-speed photograph with the equally well-known Zapruder film, whose every frame has been analyzed, and argued about, to a fare-thee-well.
  8. ↑ Bianco, Robert (July 24, 2013). "Once more, TV is 'Killing Kennedy'". USA Today.
  9. ↑ "The Crown Adds Michael C. Hall & Jodi Balfour as Jack & Jackie Kennedy". Deadline, February 9, 2017
  10. ↑ "Former First Ladies Try To Cheer Up Melania Trump About Her Husband's Alleged Affair In Biting 'SNL' Sketch". Business Insider, February 4, 2018
  11. ↑ Rosemary's Baby at Filmsite.org
  12. ↑ Tally, Robert T. Jr. (2009), "Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos, or, Starting Over", in Simmons, David (ed.), New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut (PDF), American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, Macmillan, pp. 114–131, ISBN   978-0-230-61627-1, a globally marketed event that was supposed to feature celebrity guests such as Jacqueline Onassis ... A severe financial crisis has put the cruise in jeopardy, as the celebrities have all dropped out.
  13. 1 2 Triad Theater
  14. ↑ Wilber Theatre
  15. ↑ Houston Opera Studio Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Eagles Dare Theater Archived 2009-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Fremont Centre Theatre Archived 2007-06-10 at archive.today
  18. ↑ O'Reilly Theatre Archived 2009-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ Dostal, Ellen (7 October 2016). "BWW Review: THE TRAGEDY OF JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare)". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  20. ↑ "2016 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards Winners Announced - Kristin Chenoweth, Christine Ebersole, Rachel York and More!". BroadwayWorld.com. 4 January 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  21. ↑ Heady, Taylor Alexis HeadyTaylor Alexis. "Why Does Gen Z Think Jackie Kennedy Ate Sheet Metal?". PopCrush. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  22. ↑ "Jackie Kennedy Eats Sheet Metal". Know Your Meme. 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2023-03-30.

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