Posted by: Iain Fisher
« on: May 26, 2009, 09:46:40 PM »
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.