The Discreet Charm of “Populuxe” – Intertextual Wanderings of Scenes From “Design for Dreaming”
Abstract
The author examines the inter-textual wanderings of fragments of William H. Beaudine’s Design for Dreaming (1964), produced for General Motors. He describes American short industrial films of the 1950s and 1960s, and then - starting with the David Mallet music video for David Bowie’s Hello Spaceboy - he traces the scenes from Design for Dreaming in various areas of visual culture (commercials, videoclips, series, feature films). The category of “populuxe” aesthetics created by Thomas Hine and Svetlana Boym’s reflections on nostalgia form a theoretical framework for this article.
Keywords:
American cinema, David Bowie, William H. Beaudine, populuxe, Svetlana BoymReferences
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Antoni Michnikkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Doktorant w Instytucie Sztuki PAN, historyk kultury, performer. Członek założyciel researchersko-performatywnej Grupy ETC oraz Zespołu Badań Praktyk Późnej Nowoczesności przy Instytucie Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Współpracownik Stowarzyszenia im. Stanisława Brzozowskiego. Od 2013 r. jest członkiem redakcji magazynu „Glissando”. Publikował m.in. w „Kontekstach”, „Kulturze Popularnej”, „Kulturze Współczesnej”, „Przeglądzie Humanistycznym”, „Roczniku Historii Sztuki”, „Zeszytach Literackich”. Współredaktor książek Narracje - estetyki - geografie. Fluxus w trzech aktach (2014) oraz Poza rejestrem. Rozmowy o muzyce i prawie autorskim (2016).
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