Looking for a New England

Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975 - 1986

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners.A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, how Ireland and Scotland featured on our screens and the rise of Richard Branson and a new, commercial, mainstream. The sequel to Psychedelic Celluloid, it describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank the size of the UK cinema industry.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-28
Mått:153 x 234 x 234 mm
Vikt:392 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN:9780857304117

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Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

SIMON MATTHEWS has had a varied career including serving as a local councillor in London for more than ten years, a spell running the British Transport Films documentary film library and several years singing in semiprofessional rock groups. He has contributed articles on music, film and cultural history to Record Collector, Shindig! and Lobster magazines. Psychedelic Celluloid, his illustrated history of UK music, film and TV between 1965 and 1974, was published by Oldcastle Books in 2016; the sequel, Looking for a New England, followed in 2021. He is also the author of House in the Country, Free Your Mind! and Before It Went Rotten.