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Book SynopsisPop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that have become ingrained in popular consciousness. They are a lens through which deeper understandings about race, gender, politics, history and the artistic process can be understood. When combined with the most affective of mediums cinema, the combination can be both thrilling and alarming.From the relatively early days of cinema, figures from the world of popular music have made forays into acting and contributed cameo appearances. From Little Richard and Kylie Minogue to Nick Cave and Tom Waits,
Pop Stars On Film:
Popular Culture in a Global Market offers a collection of essays on some of the most influential international performances from a diverse range of cultural icons. The book considers industry shifts, access and diversity, but also the notion of cultural appropriation, audience appeal, marketing and demographics. Perhaps most importantly, the publication will look at what happens when cultures col
Trade ReviewPop stars appearing in movies will frequently draw on their own, slightly unreal, public persona. But there is also dandyism, naivety and shape-shifting at play when a pop star switches from one discipline to the other, things that stage actors can’t necessarily bring to film. Here is a book that gives equal weight to David Bowie’s careers as musician and actor, and is all the more readable and fascinating for it. * Bob Stanley, author of Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Notes on contributors Introduction Kirsty Fairclough and Jason Wood 1 The boy can’t help it: Little Richard’s disruption and re-construction of black male screen performativity Tom Attah 2 There Always Gonna Be Queens on The Rag: Madonna and Queer Intertextuality Sarah Perks 3 Prince’s Fashion During the Batman Era: Symbols, Silhouettes, and the Return of Purple Karen Turman 4 Meet the Long-Lost Phillip Jefferies’: The Elusive Cinema of David Bowie James King 5 Where the popular meets the esoteric: Videodrome and Holy Motors Ellen Smith 6 Translating Personas: French Singers on Film Andrew Willis 7 Adam Ant, John Lydon, Jordan: Punk Stars on Film Rachel Hayward 8 From the Street to the Dancefloor: Political Imaginings of the Pop Star in Popular Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9 ...singing “Trouble of the World” in Imitation of Life Benjamin Halligan 10 Cinema, Jazz, and Representation Daniel Graham 11 Ryuichi Sakamoto: Behind the Mask Jason Wood 12 Reframing Time and Space in Dogs in Space Kristy Matheson
