Pop Stars on Film

Kirsty Fairclough is Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange and Reader in Screen Studies at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the co-editor of Prince and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury), The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop, The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (Bloomsbury), The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality and American Television. , Music/Video: Forms, Aesthetics, Media (Bloomsbury) and author of the forthcoming Beyoncé: Celebrity Feminism and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury). She is the curator of Sound and Vision: Pop Stars on Film and In Her View: Women Documentary Filmmakers film seasons at HOME, Manchester and Chair of Manchester Jazz Festival. Jason Wood is Executive Director of Public Programmes and Audiences at the British Film Institute. Having worked in the independent British film industry for over 25 years, he is also a filmmaker, whose last work, the co-directed Always (Crashing) screened at numerous international festivals. A contributor to The Wire, Wood has also written for The Economist, Time Out, Sight and Sound, Little White Lies (and others), Wood is also the author of several books, including Nick Broomfield (2005) and The Faber Book of Contemporary Mexican Cinema (2nd edition, 2021).

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