Full Description
A longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance. That David Bowie has influenced many lives is undeniable to his fans. He requisitions and challenges his audiences, through frequently indirect lyrics and images, to critically question sanity, identity and essentially what it means to be 'us' and why we are here.
Enchanting David Bowie explores David Bowie as an anti-temporal figure and argues that we need to understand him across the many media platforms and art spaces he intersects with including theatre, film, television, the web, exhibition, installation, music, lyrics, video, and fashion. This exciting collection is organized according to the key themes of space, time, body, and memory - themes that literally and metaphorically address the key questions and intensities of his output.
Contents
Introduction: Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean Redmond
List of Contributors
Introduction
Section One: Space
Section Introduction
Chapter 1: Keeping Space Fantastic: The Transformative Journey of Major Tom
Michael Lupro, Portland State University, USA
Chapter 2: Ziggy's Urban Alienation : Assembling the Heroic Outsider
Ian Chapman, The University of Otago, New Zealand
Chapter 3: Desperately Seeking Bowie: How Berlin Bowie Tourism Transcends the Sacred
Jennifer Otter and John Sparrowhawk, University of East London, UK
Chapter 4: Confronting Bowie's Mysterious Corpses
Tanja Stark, Manager, Canasta Studio, Brisbane, Australia
Section Two: Time
Section Introduction
Chapter 5: Time Again: The David Bowie Chronotope
Will Brooker, Kingston University, UK
Chapter 6: Bowie's Covers: the Artist as Modernist
David Baker, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Chapter 7: Ain't There One Damn Flag That Can Make Me Break Down and Cry?: The Formal, Performative and Emotional Tactics of Bowie's Singular Critical Anthem 'Young Americans'
Amedeo D'Adamo, University of Switzerland (It) and the Universita Cattolica, Italy
Chapter 8: 2004 (Bowie vs Mashup)
Christopher Moore, Deakin University, Australia
Section Three: Body
Section Introduction
Chapter 9: The Eyes of David Bowie
Kevin Hunt, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Chapter 10: Semantic Shock: David Bowie
Toija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia
Chapter 11: The Whiteness of David Bowie
Sean Remond, Deakin University, Australia
Chapter 12: David Bowie is ... Customizing
Helene Thian, University of the Arts London/London College of Fashion Postgraduate Programme, UK
Section Four: Memory
Section Introduction
Chapter 13: He's Not There: Velvet Goldmine and the Specters of David Bowie
Glenn D'Cruz, Deakin University, Australia
Chapter 14: Between Sound and Vision: Low and Sense
Dene October, University Arts London, UK
Chapter 15: Where Are We Now?: Walls and memory in David Bowie's Berlins
Tiffany Naiman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Chapter 16: 'You never knew that, that I could do that': Bowie, Video Art and the Search for Potsdammer Platz
Daryl Perrins, University of Glamorgan, UK
