Informationen zum Autor Toija Cinque is Senior Lecturer, Course Chair and Course Discipline Adviser in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. She edits the journal New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences. Cinque's forthcoming works include Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (2015) and the co-authored Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life , 2nd ed, (2015). Christopher Moore is Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication at Wollongong University, Australia. He is a researcher in Games Studies, the Digital Humanities, Celebrity and Persona studies, and recently co-edited the collection Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education (2013). Sean Redmond is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. He's the editor of the journal Celebrity Studies , author of The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (2013), and Celebrity and the Media (2014). Klappentext Analyses Bowie's creative output and introduces readers to the key terms and concepts! dilemmas and issues that are central to the critical understanding of celebrity. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean RedmondList of ContributorsIntroduction Section One: Space Section IntroductionChapter 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 IntroductionChapter 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 Col...

The overwhelming strength of this volume is its extremely broad definition of Bowie's 'work'. From album covers, to a customised jacket, to his atypical eyes, we move far beyond monochrome analysis of lyrical content. Its inter- and cross-disciplinary approach, presenting analysis informed by film-making, fashion, musicology, performance and drama, as well as cultural studies and media and communication, results in some highly creative contributions The effect of this volume as a whole is that much of Bowie's output, however familiar to the reader, cannot be viewed in the same way after encountering these contributors' analyses.

Vorwort
Analyzes David Bowie's creative output and introduces the reader to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the critical understanding of celebrity

Autorentext
Toija Cinque is an Associate Professor, Course Chair and Course Discipline Adviser in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. Cinque's most recent book is Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, 2011. She edits the journal New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences. Christopher Moore is Lecturer in Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. His main areas of interest are Games Studies, Digital Humanities and Online Persona,and he recently co-edited the collection Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education (2013).Sean Redmond is Associate Dean of Media, Writing and Publishing at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt

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
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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 …