{"product_id":"enchanting-david-bowie-space-time-body-memory-9781628923049","title":"Enchanting David Bowie: Space\/Time\/Body\/Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.     \u003ci\u003eEnchanting David Bowie \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis scintillating collection considers David Bowie's contemporaneity, showing how the star looks very different today—and how every different Bowie is a hero, if just for one day. With each chapter like a crystal ball ricocheting around a multi-level labyrinth, \u003ci\u003eEnchanting David Bowie \u003c\/i\u003eis full of surprises and delights for the fan and scholar alike. * Christopher Schaberg, Associate Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans, USA, and author of The Textual Life of Airports and _Deconstructing Brad Pitt *\u003cbr\u003eConsider for a moment, David Bowie’s extraordinary body of work, not just the music, but also his assimilation of different media practices: writing, painting, performance, film and video. This volume coheres around four thematic vectors–space, time, body and memory–to interrogate Bowie’s remarkable corpus of cultural production. In the process, \u003ci\u003eEnchanting David Bowie\u003c\/i\u003e–itself a standout work–not only illuminates but also construes ‘Bowie’–or versions of Bowie–that are at once compelling and fascinating. * Constantine Verevis, Associate Professor of Film \u0026amp; Screen Studies, Monash University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive critical study of the enigma that is David Bowie has been a long time coming - and now it's finally here! \u003ci\u003eEnchanting David Bowie: Space\/Time\/Body\/Memory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich, thoughtful and intellectually challenging series of essays that paint a picture of the complex chameleon that is Bowie. The charismatic array of alter egos, the fascination with cosmic travel, the groundbreaking music that sang its way into the souls of many generations, the transformation of music performance into an art form, the transgressive play with gendered identity - this and so much more makes this collection a must have for anyone serious about Bowie, his identity, his music and his iconic status, which continues to spellbind into the twenty-first century. * Angela Ndalianis, Head of Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia *\u003cbr\u003eIf Bowie, ever the chameleon, is in the habit of leaving aesthetic corpses behind, the goal of \u003ci\u003eEnchanting Bowie\u003c\/i\u003e is to dissect them. The volume is organized around four thematic concepts: space, time, body, and memory … This may sound disconcerting to Bowiephiles and musicologists, but the end result is actually quite impressive. Bowie’s performance becomes a supple text that can be endlessly reinterpreted. * LA Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. * Celebrity Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean Redmond  List of Contributors  Introduction  \u003cb\u003eSection One: Space\u003c\/b\u003e Section Introduction  Chapter 1: Keeping Space Fantastic: The Transformative Journey of Major Tom \u003ci\u003eMichael Lupro, Portland State University, USA \u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 2: Ziggy’s Urban Alienation : Assembling the Heroic Outsider \u003ci\u003eIan Chapman, The University of Otago, New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 3: Desperately Seeking Bowie:  How Berlin Bowie Tourism Transcends the Sacred \u003ci\u003eJennifer Otter and John Sparrowhawk, University of East London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 4: Confronting Bowie’s Mysterious Corpses \u003ci\u003eTanja Stark, Manager, Canasta Studio, Brisbane, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Two: Time \u003c\/b\u003eSection Introduction   Chapter 5: Time Again: The David Bowie Chronotope \u003ci\u003eWill Brooker, Kingston University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 6: Bowie’s Covers: the Artist as Modernist \u003ci\u003eDavid Baker, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  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’ \u003ci\u003eAmedeo D’Adamo, University of Switzerland (It) and the Universita Cattolica, Italy\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 8: 2004 (Bowie vs Mashup)    \u003ci\u003eChristopher Moore, Deakin University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Three: Body \u003c\/b\u003eSection Introduction  Chapter 9: The Eyes of David Bowie  \u003ci\u003eKevin Hunt, Nottingham Trent University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 10: Semantic Shock: David Bowie \u003ci\u003eToija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 11: The Whiteness of David Bowie  \u003ci\u003eSean Remond, Deakin University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 12: David Bowie is … Customizing \u003ci\u003eHelene Thian, University of the Arts London\/London College of Fashion Postgraduate Programme, UK  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Four: Memory \u003c\/b\u003eSection Introduction   Chapter 13: He's Not There: Velvet Goldmine and the Specters of David Bowie \u003ci\u003eGlenn D’Cruz, Deakin University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 14: Between Sound and Vision: \u003ci\u003eLow\u003c\/i\u003e and Sense \u003ci\u003eDene October, University Arts London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 15: Where Are We Now?: Walls and memory in David Bowie’s Berlins \u003ci\u003eTiffany Naiman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 16: ‘You never knew that, that I could do that’: Bowie, Video Art and the Search for Potsdammer Platz \u003ci\u003eDaryl Perrins, University of Glamorgan, UK\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020142969175,"sku":"9781628923049","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781628923049.jpg?v=1750782557","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/enchanting-david-bowie-space-time-body-memory-9781628923049","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}