Theorising the Popular Conference 2018
Theorising the Popular Conference 2018 Liverpool Hope University, July 11th-12th 2018 Deadline for abstracts: March 23, 2018 The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its eighth annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2018 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ subjects. One of its chief goals will be to generate debate that challenges...
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“New ways ever free”: David Bowie, Landscapes & Heritage Symposium, December 2, 2016 Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France Station to Station. In the wake of Bowie’s passing, images and voices have multiplied to evoke the diverse landscapes of his work, from the musical styles to the characters he imagined to the many facets of a career that has seen Bowie take on several roles, sometimes simultaneously, leading him from music to drama (The Elephant Man) to cinema (The Man who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Hunger, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me) and the...
Read MoreDavid Bowie: Critical Perspectives (2015)
DAVID BOWIE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Edited by Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane and Martin J. Power. Published by Routledge. David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies. Bowie’s complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any...
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