New,I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor

Contents

• List of Contributor Bios List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Shelton Waldrep, University of Southern Maine, USA Introduction Ian Dixon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Brendan Black (Independent Scholar, Australia)
• 1. Ziggy Stardust, Direct Cinema and the Multi-modal Performance of Gesamtkunstwerk Lisa Perrot (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
• 2. David Bowie Is…Actor, Star and Character: Entangled Agencies in The Man Who Fell To Earth Dene October (University of the Arts, London, UK)
• 3. The Posed and the Unposed: Inhabited Clowns and Grotesques in Bowie’s Scary Monsters and The Elephant Man Amedeo d’Adamo (American Film Institute, USA)
• 4. Consuming Bowie: Christiane F’ and the Transgressive Allure of Anglo-American Pop Culture in Cold-War West Berlin Susanne Hillman (San Diego State University, USA)
• 5. Gesturing Dust: Sensing David Bowie’s Performance in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Sean Redmond (Deakin University, Australia)
• 6. The Hunger ’s deathly shadow: The sweet annihilation of David Bowie, NYC, circa. 1980-83 Mitch Goodwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
• 7. ‘Who Can I Be Now?’: Codpieces, carnival and the blurring of identity in Labyrinth Brendan Black (Independent Scholar, Australia)
• 8. Bowie as Actor/Bowie as Icon: Authenticity versus Iconography in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ Ian Dixon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• 9. The Surveillant Power of the (A)Temporal Cameo In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Tyne Daile Sumner (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
• 10. Loving the Alienation: Bowie, Basquiat , Brecht Glenn D’Cruz (Deakin University, Australia)
• 11. Performative Emotional Symbolism and Stylistic Gesture in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige Toija Cinque (Deakin University, Australia)
• 12. ‘ Just Like the Films’: Lazarus and Cinematic Melancholia Denis Flannery (University of Leeds, UK) Filmography/Discography Bibliography Index