Overview
- Analyzes David Bowie's appearances in film
- Investigates how Bowie’s performative style fits harmoniously with alternative production codes and aesthetics
- Combines textual analysis with production and reception histories
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book constitutes the first monograph dedicated to an academic analysis of David Bowie’s appearances in film. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, Bowie’s ‘silver screen’ career is explored in full. The book covers performance documentaries such as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, star vehicles ranging from the eulogised The Man Who Fell to Earth to the excoriated Just a Gigolo, plus roles from the horror chic of The Hunger and cult fantasy of Labyrinth to the valiant high-brow Baal and vainglorious high-budget Absolute Beginners, ending with Bowie as Bowie in Bandslam and others as ‘Bowie’ in Velvet Goldmine and Stardust. Alongside showing his willingness to experiment (and at times fail) across a variety of genres, this study investigates Bowie’s performative style that, while struggling to accommodate the requirements of cinematic realism, fits more harmoniously with alternative production codes and aesthetics. More broadly, by exploring the commercial, socio-cultural and ideological significance of Bowie on film, the book demonstrates how notions of gender, sexuality and identity formation, plus commodity and cultural capital, function and fluctuate in contemporary society.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stephen Glynn lectures in Film and Television at De Montfort University, UK. His previous investigations of the connections between pop music and film include The British Pop Music Film (Palgrave, 2013) and The Beatles and Film (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: David Bowie and Film
Book Subtitle: Hooked to the Silver Screen
Authors: Stephen Glynn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13401-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13400-5Published: 01 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13403-6Published: 02 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13401-2Published: 31 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 253
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: British Cinema and TV, Music, Celebrity Studies, Popular Culture