My piece on the archetype of death in the work of David Bowie – “Confronting Bowie’s Mysterious Corpses” – appears in Bloomsbury’s 2015 Book “Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory”, a collection of essays from academics, artists and cultural theorists across the world.
Book Chapter: Stark, T. “Confronting Bowie’s Mysterious Corpses” in Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore & Sean Redmond (eds), Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory, Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2015
About the Book: A longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance. He requisitions and challenges his audiences, through frequently indirect lyrics and images, to critically question sanity, identity and essentially what it means to be ‘us’ and why we are here.
Reviews
“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.” –
Christopher Schaberg, Associate Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
“A comprehensive critical study of the enigma – a rich, thoughtful and intellectually challenging series of essays that paint a picture of the complex chameleon.”
Angela Ndalianis, Head of Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia
“.. his assimilation of different media practices: writing, painting, performance, film and video…interrogate[s] Bowie’s remarkable corpus of cultural production….Enchanting David Bowie [is] a standout work.” –
Constantine Verevis, Associate Professor of Film & Screen Studies, Monash University, Australia
“If Bowie, ever the chameleon, is in the habit of leaving aesthetic corpses behind, the goal of Enchanting Bowie is to dissect them…[and] the end result is actually quite impressive.”
– LA Review of Books-
About the Editors: 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 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. Sean Redmond is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia.
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