David Bowie: critical perspectives

by Devereux, Eoin Dillane, Aileen Power, Martin J.

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Title Statements

Full title :David Bowie : critical perspectives / edited by Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane, and Martin J. Power.

Summary

David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies. Bowie's complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its scope. The chapters are organised around the key themes of 'textualities', 'psychologies', 'orientalisms', 'art and agency' and 'performing and influencing' in Bowie's work. This comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.
Edition:1st edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 323 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415745727, 0415745721, 9781138631205, 1138631205
oclc:ocn892892364
LC Classification:ML420.B754
Dewey Decimal:782.42166092

1. David Bowie is / Kathryn Johnson -- 2. In this Age of Grand Allusion: Bowie, Nihilism, and Meaning / Richard Fitch -- 3. Culminating Sounds and (En)visions: "Ashes to Ashes" and the case for Pierrot / Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane, and Martin J. Power -- 4. Turn Myself to Face Me: David Bowie in the 1990s and the Discovery of the Authentic Self / Bethany Usher and Stephanie Fremaux -- 5. 'Crashing Out with Sylvian': David Bowie, Carl Jung and the Unconscious / Tanja Stark -- 6. Dear Dr. Freud: David Bowie Hits the Couch: A Psychoanalytical Approach to some of his Personae / Ana Leone -- 7. Moss Garden: David Bowie and Japonism in Fashion in the 1970s / Helene Thian -- 8. The "China Girl" Problem: Reconsidering David Bowie in the 1980s / Shelton Waldrep -- 9. Embodying Stardom, Representing Otherness: David Bowie in 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' / Mehdi Derfoufi -- 10. Art's Filthy Lesson / Tiffany Naiman -- 11. Authorship, Agency, and Visual Analysis: Reading (some) Bowie Album Covers / Ian Chapman -- 12. Revisiting Bowie's Berlin / David Buckley -- 13. David Bowie: The Extraordinary Rock Star as Film Star / Julie Lobalzo Wright -- 14. The (becoming-wo)Man Who Fell to Earth / …