Ebook: Enchanting David Bowie: space/time/body/memory

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.;1 Keeping Space Fantastic: The Transformative Journey of Major Tom -- 2 Ziggy's Urban Alienation: Assembling the Heroic Outsider -- 3 Desperately Seeking Bowie: How Berlin Bowie Tourism Transcends the Sacred -- 4 Confronting Bowie's Mysterious Corpses -- 5 Time Again: The David Bowie Chronotope -- 6 Bowie's Covers: The Artist as Modernist -- 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' -- 8 2004 (Bowie vs Mashup) -- 9 The Eyes of David Bowie -- 10 Semantic Shock: David Bowie! -- 11 The Whiteness of David Bowie -- 12 David Bowie is ... Customizing -- 13 He's not there: Velvet Goldmine and the Spectres of David Bowie -- 14 Between Sound and Vision: Low and Sense -- 15 When Are We Now? Walls and Memory in David Bowie's Berlins -- 16 'You never knew that, thatI could do that' Bowie, Video Art and the Search for Potsdamer Platz.