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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Topic started by: Iain Fisher on May 26, 2009, 09:46:40 PM
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A new book on Ken Russell, Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England's Last Mannerist, will be published in Sept 2009 by Scarecrow Press, USA. The book is edited by Kevin M. Flanagan.
The book "on the one hand, explores areas of Russell's career that have been somewhat overlooked or marginalized, and on the other expands the applicability of Russell's films to academic film study. Roughly half of the essays in the book are "academic" while the other half, though still scholarly, could be seen as more popular and historical. Topics covered include an elucidation of all of Russell's Monitor films, a new framework for reading Russell's whole career (as a champion of the amateur aesthetic), an essay on Russell's approach to 1980s horror, a reconsideration of Salome's Last Dance, and many, many more. Contributing writers include Barry Keith Grant, John C. Tibbetts, Joseph A. Gomez, Paul Sutton and John Kenneth Muir.
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I'm really looking forward to this, because I believe, it's been almost thirty years since we had a collection of essays on Ken's films.
But does anybody yet have a complete list of the essay titles in the book, as I'm interested most specifically in what the book will be about. And all I've seen so far is generalities.
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'But does anybody yet have a complete list of the essay titles in the book, as I'm interested most specifically in what the book will be about. And all I've seen so far is generalities.'
My old school friend Paul Sutton is helping compile this book I am sure he couldhelp you with your enquiries
presutton@hotmail.com
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The chapters are
Introduction Kevin M Flanagan
Part I Russell’s Progress
1 Ken at the BBC 1959-1970 Paul Sutton
2 The Body Politic: Ken Russell in the 1980s Barry Keith Grant
3 In Defense of the Amateur Brian Hoyle
Part II Pop Scene
4 Television, Contested Culture, and Social Control: Cultural Studies and Pop Goes the Easel Kevin M Flanagan
5 Smashing our Guitars, Deconstructing out Idols: the Pop Art Aesthetic in Tommy Tom Wallis
Part III Composer Biographies
6 “Il parait que c’etait un musician”: Ken Russell’s The Debussy Film John C. Tibbetts
7 Fact, Fiction, Fever, Fantasy: Ken Russell’s Mahler and the Bio-Film William Verrone
Part IV Critical Reconsiderations
8 Defending Rudy: Alternative Masculinities in Ken Russell’s Valentino Brian Faucette
9 As the (White) Worm Turns: Ken Russell as God and Devil of Rubber-Reality Horror Cinema John Kenneth Muir
10 Behind the Last Veil: Forms of Transgressions in Ken Russell’s Salome’s Last Dance Thomas Prasch
11 Complicating the Costume Drama: Lady Chatterley, Ken Russell and the Concepts of Heritage Kevin M Flanagan
Part V Russell Today
12 Ken Russell at Work 2006 Paul Sutton
13 “Le Phoenix Terrible: A Ken Russell Season at the BFI, July 2007 John C. Tibbetts
It looks good stuff. If you get any updates from Paul please let us know.
Iain
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Yes, it does look good. I've already read some of the brief comments made by John Kenneth Muir in his essay, and I'm already looking forward to reading his essay and the other essays in the book.
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This seems to be online now (for free)
https://www.academia.edu/13806048/Ken_Russell_Re-Viewing_Englands_Last_Mannerist (https://www.academia.edu/13806048/Ken_Russell_Re-Viewing_Englands_Last_Mannerist)