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Beschreibung

It's 1984, and investigative reporter Arthur Stuart is trying to locate Brian Slade, the glam-rock superstar who staged his own death and vanished from the spotlight ten years earlier. Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine (1998) transforms that mystery into a vivid collage of memory, fantasy and desire, creating an alternative history of rock and a landmark of queer cinema.

Velvet Goldmine divided opinion on its release, but Katherine Reed traces how the film's fans have kept it alive through rewatches, relistens and fan fiction. Reed weaves in the history of the film with close readings of its cinematic references, songs and style. She re-evaluates Velvet Goldmine in light of Haynes's other films, addresses its fraught production history and its allusions to David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, and the ways in which Haynes reshapes those figures into a new mythology.

Reed also analyses Velvet Goldmine's soundtrack, and examines legendary costume designer Sandy Powell's role in creating blends of fantasy and reality in each character's wardrobe. Like the film itself, this is not a linear history, but an exploration of how Velvet Goldmine teaches us to create anew.

It's 1984, and investigative reporter Arthur Stuart is trying to locate Brian Slade, the glam-rock superstar who staged his own death and vanished from the spotlight ten years earlier. Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine (1998) transforms that mystery into a vivid collage of memory, fantasy and desire, creating an alternative history of rock and a landmark of queer cinema.

Velvet Goldmine divided opinion on its release, but Katherine Reed traces how the film's fans have kept it alive through rewatches, relistens and fan fiction. Reed weaves in the history of the film with close readings of its cinematic references, songs and style. She re-evaluates Velvet Goldmine in light of Haynes's other films, addresses its fraught production history and its allusions to David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, and the ways in which Haynes reshapes those figures into a new mythology.

Reed also analyses Velvet Goldmine's soundtrack, and examines legendary costume designer Sandy Powell's role in creating blends of fantasy and reality in each character's wardrobe. Like the film itself, this is not a linear history, but an exploration of how Velvet Goldmine teaches us to create anew.

Über den Autor
Katherine Reed is Associate Professor of Musicology at California State University, Fullerton, USA. Reed's work on popular music, musical semiotics, and film music has appeared in Popular Music & Society, Music and the Moving Image, and the Society for American Music's Digital Lecture Series. She co-edited the collection Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds (2021).
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Track 1: 'Ballad of Maxwell Demon'
Track 2: 'Velvet Spacetime'
Track 3: 'Satellite of Love'
Track 4: '2HB'
Track 5: 'Make Me Smile'
Notes
Credits
Bibliography

Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: BFI Film Classics
ISBN-13: 9781839027475
ISBN-10: 1839027479
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Reed, Katherine
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
British Film Institute
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 60 colour illus
Maße: 188 x 132 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Katherine Reed
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.06.2026
Gewicht: 0,18 kg
Artikel-ID: 135544664

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