Enchanting David Bowie

Toija Cinque is Senior Lecturer, Course Chair and Course Discipline Adviser in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. She edits the journal New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences.Cinque's forthcoming works include Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (2015) and the co-authored Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life, 2nd ed, (2015). Christopher Moore is Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication at Wollongong University, Australia. He is a researcher in Games Studies, the Digital Humanities, Celebrity and Persona studies, and recently co-edited the collection Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education (2013). Sean Redmond is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. He's the editor of the journal Celebrity Studies, author of The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (2013), and Celebrity and the Media (2014).

This scintillating collection considers David Bowie's contemporaneity, showing how the star looks very different today-and how every different Bowie is a hero, if just for one day. With each chapter like a crystal ball ricocheting around a multi-level labyrinth, Enchanting David Bowie is full of surprises and delights for the fan and scholar alike.

• Introduction: Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean RedmondList of ContributorsIntroductionSection One: SpaceSection IntroductionChapter 1: Keeping Space Fantastic: The Transformative Journey of Major TomMichael Lupro, Portland State University, USAChapter 2: Ziggy's Urban Alienation : Assembling the Heroic OutsiderIan Chapman, The University of Otago, New ZealandChapter 3: Desperately Seeking Bowie: How Berlin Bowie Tourism Transcends the SacredJennifer Otter and John Sparrowhawk, University of East London, UKChapter 4: Confronting Bowie's Mysterious CorpsesTanja Stark, Manager, Canasta Studio, Brisbane, AustraliaSection Two: TimeSection Introduction Chapter 5: Time Again: The David Bowie ChronotopeWill Brooker, Kingston University, UKChapter 6: Bowie's Covers: the Artist as ModernistDavid Baker, Griffith University, Brisbane, AustraliaChapter 7: Ain't There One Damn Flag That Can Make Me Break Down and Cry?: The Formal, Performative and Emotional Tactics of Bowie's Singular Critical Anthem 'Young Americans'Amedeo D'Adamo, University of Switzerland (It) and the Universita Cattolica, ItalyChapter 8: 2004 (Bowie vs Mashup) Christopher Moore, Deakin University, AustraliaSection Three: BodySection IntroductionChapter 9: The Eyes of David Bowie Kevin Hunt, Nottingham Trent University, UK Chapter 10: Semantic Shock: David BowieToija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia Chapter 11: The Whiteness of David Bowie Sean Remond, Deakin University, AustraliaChapter 12: David Bowie is … CustomizingHelene Thian, University of the Arts London/London College of Fashion Postgraduate Programme, UKSection Four: MemorySection Introduction Chapter 13: He's Not There: Velvet Goldmine and the Specters of David BowieGlenn D'Cruz, Deakin University, AustraliaChapter 14: Between Sound and Vision: Low and SenseDene October, University Arts London, UKChapter 15: Where Are We Now?: Walls and memory in David Bowie's BerlinsTiffany Naiman, University of California, Los Angeles, USAChapter 16: 'You never knew that, that I could do that': Bowie, Video Art and the Search for Potsdammer PlatzDaryl Perrins, University of Glamorgan, UK