Acknowledgements Foreword Notes on contributors Introduction Kirsty Fairclough and Jason Wood 1 The boy can’t help it: Little Richard’s disruption and re-construction of black male screen performativity Tom Attah 2 There Always Gonna Be Queens on The Rag: Madonna and Queer Intertextuality Sarah Perks 3 Prince’s Fashion During the Batman Era: Symbols, Silhouettes, and the Return of Purple Karen Turman 4 Meet the Long-Lost Phillip Jefferies’: The Elusive Cinema of David Bowie James King 5 Where the popular meets the esoteric: Videodrome and Holy Motors Ellen Smith 6 Translating Personas: French Singers on Film Andrew Willis 7 Adam Ant, John Lydon, Jordan: Punk Stars on Film Rachel Hayward 8 From the Street to the Dancefloor: Political Imaginings of the Pop Star in Popular Indian Cinema Omar Ahmed 9 ...singing “Trouble of the World” in Imitation of Life Benjamin Halligan 10 Cinema, Jazz, and Representation Daniel Graham 11 Ryuichi Sakamoto: Behind the Mask Jason Wood 12 Reframing Time and Space in Dogs in Space Kristy Matheson

Pop stars appearing in movies will frequently draw on their own, slightly unreal, public persona. But there is also dandyism, naivety and shape-shifting at play when a pop star switches from one discipline to the other, things that stage actors can’t necessarily bring to film. Here is a book that gives equal weight to David Bowie’s careers as musician and actor, and is all the more readable and fascinating for it.

A collection of essays surrounding pop stars that have forayed into acting, with focus on areas such as industry shifts, access and diversity, the notion of cultural appropriation, audience appeal, marketing and demographics.