I'm Not a Film Star : David Bowie as Actor /: David Bowie as Actor. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian Dixon, Brendan Black.
• Editors: Dixon, Ian; Black, Brendan
• Contents: List of Contributor BiosList of FiguresAcknowledgementsPrefaceShelton Waldrep, University of Maine, USAIntroductionIan Dixon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Brendan Black (Independent Scholar, Australia) 1. Ziggy Stardust, Direct Cinema and the Multi-modal Performance of Gesamtkunstwerk Lisa Perrot (University of Waikato, New Zealand)2. David Bowie Is…Actor, Star and Character: Entangled Agencies in The Man Who Fell To EarthDene October (University of the Arts, London, UK)3. The Posed and the Unposed: Inhabited Clowns and Grotesques in Bowie's Scary Monsters and The Elephant ManAmedeo d'Adamo (American Film Institute, USA)4. Consuming Bowie: Christiane F' and the Transgressive Allure of Anglo-American Pop Culture in Cold-War West BerlinSusanne Hillman (San Diego State University, USA)5. Gesturing Dust: Sensing David Bowie's Performance in Merry Christmas Mr LawrenceSean Redmond (Deakin University, Australia)6. The Hunger's deathly shadow: The sweet annihilation of David Bowie, NYC, circa. 1980-83 Mitch Goodwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)7. 'Who Can I Be Now?': Codpieces, carnival and the blurring of identity in LabyrinthBrendan Black (Independent Scholar, Australia)8. Bowie as Actor/Bowie as Icon: Authenticity versus Iconography in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of ChristIan Dixon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)9. The Surveillant Power of the (A)Temporal Cameo In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Tyne Daile Sumner (The University of Melbourne, Australia)10. Loving the Alienation: Bowie, Basquiat, Brecht Glenn D'Cruz (Deakin University, Australia)11. Performative Emotional Symbolism and Stylistic Gesture in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige Toija Cinque (Deakin University, Australia) 12. 'Just Like the Films': Lazarus and Cinematic MelancholiaDenis Flannery (University of Leeds, UK)Filmography/DiscographyBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups; Film theory & criticism; Popular culture; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Biography & Autobiography -- Entertainment & Performing Arts; Music -- Individual Composer & Musician; Individual film directors, film-makers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501368677; 1501368672
• Related ISBNs: 9781501368684
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