Ian Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0971-8460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Patriarchal confession
Eric Khoo’s In the Room presents the hotel as a cinematic metaphor for formerly closeted sexuality in Singapore. The film offers images of heterosexuality as well as homosexuality and transgender identity, even embracing female empowerment in a national context where such sympathies are rare. However, despite Khoo’s ostensible liberalism, the hotel does not represent sensual freedom, but rather enacts an uncritical and repressive worldview. Indee…
Your face is a mess
This article references David Bowie’s face as cultural capital in Diamond Dogs: a modernist ‘whole’ work comprised of Bowie’s rock musicality, literature, album cover, stage-show and performative mask. The paper interrogates Chris Rojek on religion and descent and Richard Dyer’s Stars on facial signage asking how celebrity discourse is inscribed within Dogs as anxiety about the artist’s face. The paper finds that Bowie’s fascination with facial d…
The Return of the Thin White Repressed
David Bowie is notorious for forging artistic and technical frontiers in video art as an adjunct to his music (Sandford 1996). In ‘The stars (are out tonight)’ (2013), he engages Floria Sigismondi
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The Return of the Thin White Repressed
David Bowie is notorious for forging artistic and technical frontiers in video art as an adjunct to his music (Sandford 1996). In ‘The stars (are out tonight)’ (2013), he engages Floria Sigismondi
Your face is a mess
This article references David Bowie’s face as cultural capital in Diamond Dogs: a modernist ‘whole’ work comprised of Bowie’s rock musicality, literature, album cover, stage-show and performative mask. The paper interrogates Chris Rojek on religion and descent and Richard Dyer’s Stars on facial signage asking how celebrity discourse is inscribed within Dogs as anxiety about the artist’s face. The paper finds that Bowie’s fascination with facial d…
Patriarchal confession
Eric Khoo’s In the Room presents the hotel as a cinematic metaphor for formerly closeted sexuality in Singapore. The film offers images of heterosexuality as well as homosexuality and transgender identity, even embracing female empowerment in a national context where such sympathies are rare. However, despite Khoo’s ostensible liberalism, the hotel does not represent sensual freedom, but rather enacts an uncritical and repressive worldview. Indee…
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work)