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Supplemental links for items discussed in the text:


Michael Jackson's Art and Studio (LA Weekly, August 2011)

Photo of Jackson with Mickey Mouse

Jackson's Mickey Mouse "Bad" Drawing

Another photo of Jackson with Mickey Mouse

Abandoned Michael Jacson and Mickey Mouse video project

You Are Not Alone performance from 1993

You are Not Alone performance from 1997

You Are Not Alone performance with "YANA girl" struggling against security

Jackson fan serenade in Santiago, Chile

Jackson fan serenade in Munich

Another fan serenade

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Sylvia J. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The University of Hong Kong. She earned her PhD in anthropology at UC Irvine, and has conducted long-term ethnographic research on the production process in the Hollywood and Hong Kong film/television industries. A recipient of a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship in Hong Kong, Martin has published on media, culture, performance, economics, and globalization in Visual Anthropology Review, Society, and American Ethnologist, and in anthologies Film and Risk and The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies. Her current manuscript looks at production and performance processes in commercial entertainment sites.