Citations:Elvisdom

English citations of Elvisdom

Noun: "the sphere or fandom of singer Elvis Presley"

• 1990 — F. Maurice Speed & James Cameron-Wilson, Film Review, 1990-91, Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 77:

  A collection of characters float in and out of the narrative: a young Japanese couple come to Memphis to visit the sites of Elvisdom;

• 1992 — Ted Harrison, Elvis People: The Cult of the King, Fount (1992), →ISBN, page 78:

  The messages cover every aspect of Elvisdom. Every day there are new fans with felt pens arriving to make their mark. And, inevitably, in and amongst the messages from the faithful, a few wags have left their contributions: "Elvis, you came, you saw, you conquered, you croaked."

• 1996 — Karal Ann Marling, Graceland: Going Home With Elvis, Harvard University Press (1996), →ISBN, page 226:

  Is there a tourist anywhere, in all of Elvisdom, who does not know that he died in his upstairs bathroom, under seamy circumstances that have been the topic of bad jokes ever since?

• 2007 — Howard Hampton, Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses, Harvard University Press (2007), →ISBN, page 229:

  Yet fast-forwarding through the endless tinseled corridors of movie Elvisdom is to glimpse a work of metacinema taking shape before our eyes.

• 2012 — Bob Batchelor, Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Praegar (2012), →ISBN, page 111:

  Some believe Elvis's Ed Sullivan appearance brought out the sexual frustration felt by America at the time, thus culminating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s. It is no surprise that fans within various enclaves of Elvisdom exude excitement over the sex appeal of their idol.