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David Bowie and Film
Hooked to the Silver Screen (livre en anglais)
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Description de l'ouvrage :
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.
À propos de l'auteur :
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).
Revue de Presse :
"David Bowie and Film: Hooked to the Silver Screen is an important book. It analyses Bowie’s crossover stardom and provides new knowledge of not only Bowie as a cultural figure but also of the films Bowie acted in. As such, the book also offers a very useful and original case study of the ways in which one star can have a profound impact on British cinema history and cultural history."
- (Paul Newland, University of Worcester, UK)
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Voir la filmographie complète de David Bowie sur le site IMDB ...
> Du même auteur :
The Beatles and Film (2023)
From Youth Culture to Counterculture
Sujet : Un Film > A Hard Day's Night, Help!
> Sur un thème proche :
David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022)
de Paul Duncan
(en anglais, français et allemand)
Sujet : Un Film > L'Homme qui venait d'ailleurs
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