David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

ISBN-13: 9780367356750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 168 str.

Ana Cristina Mendes; Lisa Perrott

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Addressing the interart, intertextual, and intermedial dimensions of David Bowie’s sonic and visual legacy, this book considers five decades of a career invested with a star’s luminosity that shines well beyond the remit of pop music. It was first published as a special issue of Celebrity Studies.

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Introduction: Navigating with the Blackstar: the mediality of David Bowie  1. Constellating stardom, Berlin-style: Bowie, Christiane F, Hedi Slimane  2. Football, fashion and unpopular culture: David Bowie’s influence on Liverpool Football Club casuals 1976-79  3. Celebrity conferences as confessional spaces: the aca-fan memory traces of David Bowie’s stardom  4. Is Bowie our Kierkegaard? : A theory of Agency in Fandom  5. ‘Oh man, I need TV when I got T. Rex’: Bowie and Bolan’s otherworldly carnivalesque intermediality  6. Telling lies: the interviews of David Bowie  7. Transition transmission: media, seriality and the Bowie-Newton matrix  8. Time is out of joint: the transmedial hauntology of David Bowie  9. ‘Look up here, I’m in heaven’: how visual and performance artist David Jones called attention to his physical death