1st Edition

David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

Edited By Ana Cristina Mendes, Lisa Perrott Copyright 2020
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Addressing the interart, intertextual, and intermedial dimensions of David Bowie’s sonic and visual legacy, this book considers more than five decades of a career invested with a star’s luminosity that shines well beyond the remit of pop music. The book approaches the idea of the star David Bowie as a medium in transit, undergoing constant movement and change. Within the context of celebrity... Read more

Introduction: Navigating with the Blackstar: the mediality of David Bowie

Ana Cristina Mendes and Lisa Perrott

1. Constellating stardom, Berlin-style: Bowie, Christiane F, Hedi Slimane

Susan Ingram

2. Football, fashion and unpopular culture: David Bowie’s influence on Liverpool Football Club casuals 1976-79

Mairi MacKenzie

3. Celebrity conferences as confessional spaces: the aca-fan memory traces of David Bowie’s stardom

Toija Cinque

4. Is Bowie our Kierkegaard? : A theory of Agency in Fandom

Amedeo D’Adamo

5. ‘Oh man, I need TV when I got T. Rex’: Bowie and Bolan’s otherworldly carnivalesque intermediality

Alison Blair

6. Telling lies: the interviews of David Bowie

Elizabeth McCarthy

7. Transition transmission: media, seriality and the Bowie-Newton matrix

Dene October

8. Time is out of joint: the transmedial hauntology of David Bowie

Lisa Perrott

9. ‘Look up here, I’m in heaven’: how visual and performance artist David Jones called attention to his physical death

Gareth Schott

Biography

Ana Cristina Mendes is Assistant Professor of English Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her areas of specialization are cultural and postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on the representations and reception of alterity in the global cultural marketplace. She serves on the board of the Association of Cultural Studies.



Lisa Perrott is Senior Lecturer of Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research specialties include cultural studies, animation, and transmedia, with an emphasis on the relations between audiovisual media, popular music, and the avant-garde. Lisa is co-editor of the Bloomsbury book series New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media.