{"product_id":"ken-russell-reviewing-englands-last-mannerist-9780810869547","title":"Ken Russell Reviewing Englands Last Mannerist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first anthology of essays that focuses solely on Ken Russell in over 30 years, and it seeks to reflect a newly revived interest in his films. The essays re-contextualize Russell's work in light of new approaches to film studies and work to correct, nuance, or amend previous scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a worthy study of a director who moved too far toward the margins to endure.... Recommended. * CHOICE, May 2010 *\u003cbr\u003eTom Wallis's essay on Tommy (1975) finds that both Russell and Townshend wish to 'transcend and parody' their respective genres, and treats the film in question with a sensitivity rare in writing on rock music which often oscillates between poles of enthusiastic fandom and Adornite misanthropy....In this book, Russell emerges, variously, as a profoundly aesthetic maker of lush costume drama, a gore maestro, pop artist, dogged amateur and commentator on the vagaries of Thatcherism....To say that a 'definitive' Russel does not emerge from this book of essays is far from a criticism— it is a testament to one of Britain's most visionary, contrary and multi-faceted film-makers. * Journal Of British Cinema and Television *","brand":"Scarecrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038353031511,"sku":"9780810869547","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810869547.jpg?v=1750940024","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ken-russell-reviewing-englands-last-mannerist-9780810869547","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}