Forever Stardust
Forever Stardust

Author: Will Brooker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1786731533

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Most of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic 'changes' chronologically throughout his career. This book, uniquely, examines Bowie's 'sameness': his recurring themes, images, motifs and concepts as an artist, across all his creative work, from lyrics and music through to costumes, storyboards, films, plays and painting.To be published on Bowie's 70th birthday, Forever Stardust looks at Bowie's work not as a linear evolution through calendar time, to his tragic death in January 2016, but as a matrix, a dialogue, a network of ideas that echo back and forth across the five decades of his career, interacting with each other and with the surrounding culture. It explores Bowie's creative output as a whole, tracing the repetitions and obsessions that structure his work, discovering what they tell us about Bowie in all his forms, from Ziggy Stardust to David Jones.David Bowie challenged cultural expectations from the early 1970s until his final masterpiece, Blackstar. Forever Stardust offers a new understanding of this remarkable & significant artist.

Stardust's Space
Stardust's Space

Author: Rubeena Kaur

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2022-03-19

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13:

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"Hugs break, kisses sink and feelings die." A strong blend of deeply moving and highly charming poems that will definitely make you relive a thousand memories. Entangled feelings expressed in words that will never be enough. Intertwined thoughts screaming under the surface, hoping for an eternity of love.

Wild
Wild

Author: Gil Brewer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1440542511

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I never knew what trouble was until she came back into my life and started fanning the flames on an old torch. “I need you, Lee,” she said. Then she looked up at me with those wonderful, burning dark eyes of hers and I fell into them just like I always did—like it was yesterday and we were crazy in love on Cloud 13. Only it was today. Only she already had a husband. Only he was missing. She wanted me to find him before he found her—and killed her. There were holes in her story. There were holes in my head, too. Because I bought every word of it. Bang! The next thing I knew I was head over heels in a mess of corpses, killers, and wild, wild women.

Masked
Masked

Author: Johnnie Mae Boutwell

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-08-27

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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I’m what’s called high masking, meaning I’m very good at hiding my autistic traits. Once I knew what masking was, once I began to learn how to recognize my own mask and to see all the ways that I was pretending, I realized so many of these poems are a reflection of the pain and turmoil that result from heavy masking. I want to honor this part of myself. This past version of me who was trapped, raging against the mask she did not know was there, stifled beneath the pressure to perform for society the role she was assigned. This volume is an eclectic collection of prose, traditional poetry, and stream-of-conscious realizations. In keeping with the unmoored chaos that was my mental state, which, in retrospect, was indicative of my unrealized self, held captive by an alien society, you will find that the themes present in this volume range wildly and without order. From vicious self-abasement to whimsical fancy and all that lies in between. As an autistic individual, I often struggle to both understand and communicate my own emotional state. Consequently, my poetry is largely experimental, raw, and often off the cuff.

Princess Ponies 6: Best Friends Forever!
Princess Ponies 6: Best Friends Forever!

Author: Chloe Ryder

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1619634066

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Enter a land of magical ponies in this chapter book series that features illustrations throughout! On an enchanted island far, far away, princess ponies can talk and play. Eight golden horseshoes give the ponies their magic, but when the shoes go missing from the castle, only a true pony lover can save the princesses and their home. It's Midsummer Day and Pippa and Princess Stardust are going on a very important journey to find the final golden horseshoe. It will take them to a dangerous part of the island, and they must be braver than ever before. The future of Chevalia is at stake. Don't miss all of the books in the Princess Ponies series: A Magical Friend A Dream Come True The Special Secret A Unicorn Adventure! An Amazing Rescue Best Friends Forever! A Special Surprise A Singing Star The Lucky Horseshoe The Pumpkin Ghost Season's Galloping An Enchanted Heart

Enchanting David Bowie
Enchanting David Bowie

Author: Toija Cinque

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1628923059

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A longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance. That David Bowie has influenced many lives is undeniable to his fans. 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. Enchanting David Bowie explores David Bowie as an anti-temporal figure and argues that we need to understand him across the many media platforms and art spaces he intersects with including theatre, film, television, the web, exhibition, installation, music, lyrics, video, and fashion. This exciting collection is organized according to the key themes of space, time, body, and memory - themes that literally and metaphorically address the key questions and intensities of his output.

Siting Futurity
Siting Futurity

Author: Susan Ingram

Publisher: punctum books

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1953035477

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It also shows how work with a connection to Vienna by international stars like David Bowie, Wes Anderson, and Christoph Schlingensief has absorbed the same principles.While the overwhelming scale of technological development and the ensuing problems and crises may not have been deliberately designed to induce resignation, passivity, and despair, those who benefit from the related hyperobjects of financialization and climate change must find it convenient that they do, as demoralization reduces resistance to their profit-making machinations. It is in this context that Red Vienna's proud tradition of social engagement and long tradition of resistance and radicality deserves to be better known. Susan Ingram is Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University, Toronto, where she coordinates the Graduate Diploma for Comparative Literature and is affiliated with the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and the Research Group on Language and Culture Contact. .

David Bowie and Romanticism
David Bowie and Romanticism

Author: James Rovira

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-22

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 303097622X

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David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie’s music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticism to provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie’s oeuvre and periods of his career. The chapters discuss key themes in Bowie’s work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us about Romantic art and literature as well.

David Bowie and Film
David Bowie and Film

Author: Stephen Glynn

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 303113401X

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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.

The Fandom of David Bowie
The Fandom of David Bowie

Author: Toija Cinque

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 3030158802

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Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, this book explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption, resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society. Sean Redmond and Toija Cinque draw on personal interviews, memorabilia, diaries, letters, communal gatherings and shared conversation to find out why Bowie mattered so much to the fans that idolized him. Contextualising the identification streams that have emerged around David Bowie, the book highlights his remarkable influence.