Reviews

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The Fandom of David Bowie: Everyone Says “Hi” (2019)

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The Fandom of David Bowie: Everybody Says ‘Hi’ sweeps away hackneyed stereotypes which say that music fandom is about fantasy, blind loyalty, religious worship or passive reception, replacing them with a series of cogent explanations which demonstrate how Bowie fans continually use the object of their fascination as a personal resource, a figure who helps them live their lives. Moving between fan testimonies and the authors’ well-crafted phrases, the book pin points how, for these people, at least in the fannish aspect of their lives, Bowie is not just another thing. He is at the centre of everything. In research my field, I think we will be talking about Cinque and Redmond’s

insights for years to come – Mark Duffett, Reader, Dept of Media, University of Chester

 

Celebrity (2018)

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'In this dazzling star-turn of a book, Sean Redmond offers a guide and a conceptual inventory to the circuits of celebrity. Celebrity expertly analyses dominant approaches as well as recovering celebrity’s all-too-often excluded energies of affect, embodiment and texturality. By insistently weaving fandom into scholarship, and the affective into the cultural, Redmond casts a spellbinding look at the fascinations, provocations and multisensory complexities of celebrity today.' - Matt Hills, University of Huddersfield, UK

 

Liquid Space: Digital Age Science Fiction Film (2017)

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‘In this immersive yet critical book, Sean Redmond never forgets the structures of power behind the enticing mirrored surfaces of science fiction. A warm, generous and honest academic-poet: he gently shapes our understanding by sharing his personal experiences.’ – Will Brooker, Kingston University; author of Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-first Century Batman.

 

Flowering Blood: The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano (2013)

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Wendy Haslem, University of Melbourne, writes, ‘The depth of engagement with the films and the director… ensures a complex reading of Kitano’s cinema. This is a book that I recommend to film scholars as an example of how to experiment with film analysis and how to write on film in innovative ways… More than this, The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano is an evocative and powerful contribution to film culture’.

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The War Body on Screen (2008)

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Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, London, ‘War Body is a breathtaking exploration of terror and pain in the modern world. Its passionate engagement with the big issues of our times and its intellectual rigour makes it indispensable reading’.