The whiteness of David Bowie Redmond, Sean 2015, The whiteness of David Bowie. In Redmond, Sean, Cinque, Toija and Moore, Christopher (ed), Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory, Bloomsbury, New York, N. Y., pp.215-230. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The whiteness of David Bowie Author(s) Redmond, Sean orcid.org/0000-0002-1460-8610 Title of book Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory Editor(s) Redmond, Sean orcid.org/0000-0002-1460-8610 Cinque, Toija orcid.org/0000-0001-9845-3953 Moore, Christopher Publication date 2015 Chapter number 11 Total chapters 16 Start page 215 End page 230 Total pages 15 Publisher Bloomsbury Place of Publication New York, N. Y. Keyword(s) Whiteness stardom and celebrity David Bowie Critical race theory Summary During the 1980s, in particular, Bowie embodied particular notions of white masculinity that were on the one hand supportive of its idealized hegemony, and on the other subverted its normative power. I will take 1983 as the year when his whiteness is particularly visible and unstable. Bowie, as either the blonde dandy from Let’s Dance; the enigmatic character, Maj. Jack 'Strafer' Celliers from Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983); or the simmering vampire, John Blaylock from The Hunger (1983), crystlised the pure qualities of white masculinity while demonstrating its violent, queer and subversive nature. The chapter will suggest that Bowie has constantly operated along a white continuum, self-consciously embodying it, granting it carnal and ideological power, while drawing attention to its death-like instinct, its anti-reproductive progeny, its implicit queerness.I have chosen to read Bowie’s whiteness through this shortened window of temporality to enable me to draw into the analysis the historical and cultural issues of the period in question. 1983 registers as the year in which whiteness is acutely imagined to be under threat from the Asian tiger and transforming geo-political realities, its own languid anti-corporeality, the AIDS ‘epidemic’, and from the rise of racism in Europe and elsewhere - realities which require it to re-position its power relations with the sexual, and ethnic Other. The whiteness in/of David Bowie speaks particularly eloquently to this historical moment. ISBN 9781628923056 Language eng Field of Research 200204 Cultural Theory 200212 Screen and Media Culture Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter Copyright notice ©2015, Bloomsbury Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30076990 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Publisher URL Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 26 Aug 2015, 15:42:43 EST Thu, 27 Aug 2015, 05:13:34 EST Thu, 27 Aug 2015, 08:54:22 EST Thu, 27 Aug 2015, 09:00:41 EST Mon, 14 Sep 2015, 15:28:28 EST Tue, 15 Sep 2015, 06:09:50 EST Fri, 06 Nov 2015, 08:03:29 EST Fri, 06 Nov 2015, 08:04:23 EST Fri, 06 Nov 2015, 08:05:26 EST Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 11:49:34 EST Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 11:55:01 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 480 Abstract Views, 8 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 14 Sep 2015, 15:28:28 EST

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