I’m Not a Film Star
«A lively, welcome and often surprising addition to our knowledge of the mercurial David Bowie and his place in popular culture. This is a wide-ranging and significant stimulus to Bowie studies.»
Rodney Hall, Former Distinguished Visiting Professor at Victoria University, Australia, and author o
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 336
- ISBN
- 9781501368684
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«A lively, welcome and often surprising addition to our knowledge of the mercurial David Bowie and his place in popular culture. This is a wide-ranging and significant stimulus to Bowie studies.»
Rodney Hall, Former Distinguished Visiting Professor at Victoria University, Australia, and author o
«I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor succeeds in being not only scholarly, thorough and enlightening, but also highly readable. Whilst it covers perhaps the least explored facet of Bowie’s career, the authors weave in-depth analyses across his entire film (and stage) career intertwined with his better known (other) work and life. Bowie was an artist who resisted being pigeonholed concerning what it was to be one, and this book follows, thereby shedding new light on his whole oeuvre. I wish the research had been published when we were developing the exhibition David Bowie is.»
Victoria Broackes, Director, London Design Biennale, UK, and co-curator of David Bowie is (2013-2016
«The rich and engaging essays Dixon and Black have collected in I’m Not a Film Star treat everything from Bowie’s cameos, short films, and videos to his notable starring performances. Together, they teach us that Bowie was more than a rock star dabbling in the movies. Rather, he chose his roles carefully and made thoughtful decisions about acting styles as he rethought his relation to realist acting and Brechtian ideas of gestural performance. The range of approaches represented here, including celebrity studies, close analysis of individual scenes, and performance theory, matches the diversity of Bowie’s work in film.»
Glenn Hendler, Professor of English and American Studies, Fordham University, USA, and author of Dav