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"Explores films of the long 60s that were assigned an "X" certificate by the British Board of Film Censors alongside new and emerging social and sexual practices of the time"--
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Benjamin Halligan
Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s, including the "Summer of Love," the rise and fall of the Permissive Society…
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By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to…
In Witchfinder General , Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair…
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This is a fresh and groundbreaking account of the innovations and provocations of the cinema of 1968, and its social and aesthetic contexts. Halligan offers a genuinely fresh analysis of…
This is a fresh and groundbreaking account of the innovations and provocations of the cinema of 1968, and its social and aesthetic contexts. Benjamin Halligan offers a genuinely fresh analysis…
This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith…
A groundbreaking collection that studies noise not merely as a sonic phenomenon but as an essential component of all communication and information systems.
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This title offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this essential genre of film-making. The book will…
Stories We Could Tell:Putting Words to American Popular Music identifies eight typical strategies used when critics and historians write about American popular music, and subjects each to forensic analysis. This…
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A groundbreaking collection of essays, proposing new frameworks for the discussion of noise - from postpunk to showgaze and beyond.
Politics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s celebrated call to arms: ‘Ye are many - they are few!’ This idea of the Many, as a general form…
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving…
"The first academic engagement with "divas," including a discussion of their roots, evolutions, functions, and appropriations. Channelling the ideas and strategies of feminism, empowerment, intersectionality, identity politics, and more to…
