Nicole Kidman
Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute, $29.95 pb, 148 pp
Film
Nicole Kidman by Pam Cook
by Francesca Sasnaitis •
‘Will the real Nicole Kidman please stand up?’ Many readers will remember that line from the television game show Tell the Truth, in which celebrities were required to guess which of three contestants was the ‘real’ person. Pam Cook tells us that our ‘search for veracity is doomed to failure’ because, in this case, the celebrity’s identity is a fragmentary and contradictory media construct.
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