… If we are to believe the media reports such as those from which these characterizations are
taken, Michael Jackson is a profoundly disturbed and disturbing person, and evidence of his
perversion resides in his flesh, or more specifically, his face—a face that many have described
as increasingly monstrous. … Rather than scrutinizing this face in an attempt to wrest-forth, once
and for all, the truth of the psyche, the subject, that is Michael Jackson, the aim of this paper is
to turn the tables somewhat and focus instead on this face as a discursive site which has been …